NATURPHILOSOPHIE AND ITS ROLE IN RIEMANN'S MATHEMATICS

Bottazzini, Umberto; Tazzioli, Rossana

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

Title :

NATURPHILOSOPHIE AND ITS ROLE IN RIEMANN'S MATHEMATICS

Author(s) :

Bottazzini, Umberto [Auteur]
Tazzioli, Rossana [Auteur]

Laboratoire Paul Painlevé - UMR 8524 [LPP]

Journal title :

Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques

Publisher :

Society Math De France

Publication date :

1995

ISSN :

1262-022X

English keyword(s) :

ether theory
complex function theory
Riemannian differential geometry

HAL domain(s) :

Mathématiques [math]

English abstract : [en]

— This paper sets out to examine some of Riemann's papers and notes left by him, in the light of the " philosophical " standpoint expounded in his writings on Naturphilosophie. There is some evidence that many of Riemann's ...
Show more >— This paper sets out to examine some of Riemann's papers and notes left by him, in the light of the " philosophical " standpoint expounded in his writings on Naturphilosophie. There is some evidence that many of Riemann's works, including his Habilitationsvortrag of 1854 on the foundations of geometry, may have sprung from his attempts to find a unified explanation for natural phenomena, on the basis of his model of the ether.Show less >

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Anglais

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