Living mathematics: Poincaré and Weyl in context
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Living mathematics: Poincaré and Weyl in context
zbMATH Open document ID: 1402.01003
DOI: 10.4171/176-1/35
publication date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Henri Poincaré and Hermann Weyl enriched both mathematics and physics. Indeed, Poincaré and Weyl \textit{lived} their mathematics, physics, and philosophy, and they reflected deeply on their work in their popular essays. By looking at their popular writings we can gain an intimate sense of what animated them, the different sets of values and aspirations that they had, and the ways they saw the significance of their work. Tradition is for the mathematician to create, change, even transcend -- and surely Poincaré and Weyl transcended it -- and for the Historian to take apart, complicate, re-balance, even reject. But everyone is marked by their time and place. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1396.00017].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
zbMATH DE Number: 6979412
author: Jeremy Gray
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4171/176-1/35
OpenAlex ID: W4242716155
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6979412