MG13 - Talk detail |
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Participant |
Eckes, Christophe | |||||||
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Institution |
Institut Camille Jordan - 61, rue Chevreul - Lyon - Rhône-Alpes - France | |||||||
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Session |
HR1 |
Accepted |
Yes |
Order |
6 |
Time |
17:00 - 17:30 | 30' |
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Talk |
Oral abstract |
Title |
Hermann Weyl's Raum - Zeit - Materie and its early reception | |||||
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Abstract |
We aim at studying Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie which is one of the first textbooks on general relativity. We will compare the different editions of this monograph (1918-1923). We will also sum up the two main scientific projects developed by Weyl during this period and their reception by mathematicians, physicists and philosophers, namely Einstein, Reichenbach, Hilbert, Pauli, E. Cartan, etc. Weyl's first project consists in building up a so-called purely infinitesimal geometry in order to unify gravitation and electromagnetism. Weyl's second project consists in formulating and solving the so-called "problem of space". We will underline the central role played by Weyl in the development of mathematical physics and differential geometry in the early 1920s. |
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