Tuning up mind's pattern to nature's own idea: Eddington's early twenties case for variational derivatives

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2010.03.001zbMath1228.01031OpenAlexW2026875005MaRDI QIDQ652828

Ivahn Smadja

Publication date: 17 December 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2010.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

eddingtonEinsteingeneral relativityHilbertgauge invarianceHamilton's principleactionstructuralismWeyl

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) History of differential geometry (53-03) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) History of global analysis (58-03)

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