The Language of Physics [E-Book] : The Calculus and the Development of Theoretical Physics in Europe, 1750–1914 / by Elizabeth Garber.
This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of ph...
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Personal Name(s): | Garber, Elizabeth, author |
Imprint: |
Boston, MA :
Birkhäuser,
1999
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Physical Description: |
XIX, 399 p. online resource. |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9781461217664 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4612-1766-4 |
Subject (LOC): |
- I: Introduction
- Mathematics and Modern Physics
- Modern Physics
- Earlier Historical Approaches to Modern Physics
- Mathematics as Language
- Organization of the Text
- I: Eighteenth-Century Science
- II: Vibrating Strings and Eighteenth-Century Mechanics
- III: Eighteenth-Century Physics and Mathematics: A Reassessment
- II: Transitions, 1790–1830
- IV: “Empirical Literalism”: Mathematical Versus Experimental Physics in France, 1790–1830
- V: On the Margins: Experimental Physics and Mathematics in the German States, 1790–1830
- VI: On the Margins: Experimental Philosophy and Mathematics in Britain, 1790–1830
- III: Transformations, 1830–1870
- VII: From Natural Philosophy and “Mixed Mathematics” to Theoretical and Experimental Physics: Britain, 1830–1870
- VIII: Physics and Mathematics in the German States, 1830–1870
- IV: Conclusions and Epilogue
- IX: Physics About 1870 and the “Decline” of French Physics
- X: Epilogue: Forging New Relationships: 1870–1914.