Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method and His “Foundations of Physics”: Reconciling Causality with the Axiom of General Invariance

DOI10.1007/978-0-8176-4940-1_8zbMath1229.83007OpenAlexW119011495MaRDI QIDQ3108319

T. A. Ryckman, Katherine A. Brading

Publication date: 2 January 2012

Published in: Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4940-1_8

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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