H. Weyl’s Deep Insights intotheMathematicalandPhysicalWorlds: His Important Contribution to the Philosophy of Space, Time and Matter

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-11527-2_9zbMath1442.83004OpenAlexW2980176007MaRDI QIDQ3297260

Luciano Boi

Publication date: 3 July 2020

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11527-2_9

zbMATH Keywords

geometryorthogonal groupYang-Mills theoryspinorsgauge theoryquantum mechanicsgeneral relativitygeometric algebraconnection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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