A richer picture of mathematics : the Göttingen tradition and beyond /: the Göttingen tradition and beyond. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David E. Rowe.
• Authors: Rowe, David E, 1950-
• Contents: Part I. Two rival centers : Göttingen vs. Berlin -- On Gauss and Gaussian legends : a quiz -- Gauss, Dirichlet, and the law of Biquadratic reciprocity -- Episodes in the Belin-Göttingen rivalry, 1870-1930 -- Deine Sonia : a reading from a Burned Letter by Reinhard Bölling, translated by D.E. Rowe -- Who linked Hegel's philosophy with the history of mathematics -- Part II. The young Felix Klein -- Models as research tools : Plücker, Klein, and Kummer surfaces -- Debating Grassman's mathematics : Schlegel vs. Klein -- Three letters from Sophus lie to Felix Klein on mathematics in Paris -- Klein, Mittag-Leffer, and the Klein-Poincaré correspondence of 1881-1882 -- Part III. David Hilbert steps onstage -- Hilbert's early career -- Klein, Hurwitz, and the "Jewish question" in German academia -- On the background to HIlbert's Paris lecture "mathematical problems" -- Poincaré week in Göttingen, 22-28 April 1909 -- Part IV. Mathematics and the relativity revolution -- Hermann Minkowski's cologne lecture, " Raum und Zeit" -- Max von Laue's role in the relativity revolution -- Euclidean geometry and physical space -- The mathematicians' happy hunting ground : Einstein's general theory of relativity -- Einstein's gravitational field equations and the Bianchi identities -- Puzzles and paradoxes and their (sometimes) profounder implications -- Debating relativistic cosmology, 1917-1924 -- Remembering an era : Roger Penrose's paper on "gravitational collapse : the role of general relativity" -- Part V. Göttingen in the era of Hilbert and Courant -- Hermann Weyl, the reluctant revolutionary -- Transforming tradition : Richard Courant in Göttingen -- Otto Neugebauer and the Göttingen approach to history of the exact sciences -- On the Myriad mathematical traditions of ancient Greece -- The old guard under a new order : K.O. Friedrichs Meets Felix Klein -- An enchanted era remembered : interview with Dirk Jan Struik -- Part IV. People and legacies -- Is (was) mathematics an art or a science? -- Coxeter on people and polytopes -- Mathematics in wartime : private reflections of Clifford Truesdell -- Hilbert's legacy : projecting the future and assessing the past at the 1946 Princeton bicentennial conference -- Personal reflections on Dirk Jan Struik by Joseph W. Dauben.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510.9; Mathematics -- History; MATHEMATICS -- Essays; MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS -- Reference; Mathematics; Electronic book; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319678191; 3319678191
• Related ISBNs: 9783319678184; 3319678183
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2018).
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