Tuning up mind's pattern to nature's own idea: Eddington's early twenties case for variational derivatives
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Tuning up mind's pattern to nature's own idea: Eddington's early twenties case for variational derivatives
zbMATH Open document ID: 1228.01031
author: Ivahn Smadja
published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
publication date: 2011-12-17T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58-03
zbMATH DE Number: 5988870
zbMATH Keywords: general relativity
zbMATH Keywords: Hamilton's principle
zbMATH Keywords: action
zbMATH Keywords: gauge invariance
zbMATH Keywords: structuralism
zbMATH Keywords: eddington
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein
zbMATH Keywords: Hilbert
zbMATH Keywords: Weyl
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.shpsb.2010.03.001
OpenAlex ID: W2026875005
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DOI: 10.1016/J.SHPSB.2010.03.001
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5988870