Geometry and experience: Einstein's 1921 paper and Hilbert's axiomatic system
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· AIP Conference Proceedings
- Universite Lille III, UMR 8163 'Savoirs et Textes', BP 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq (France)
In his 1921 paper Geometrie und Erfahrung, Einstein decribes the new epistemological status of geometry, divorced from any intuitive or a priori content. He calls that 'axiomatics', following Hilbert's theoretical developments on axiomatic systems, which started with the stimulus given by a talk by Hermann Wiener in 1891 and progressed until the Foundations of geometry in 1899. Difficult questions arise: how is a theoretical system related to an intuitive empirical content?.
- OSTI ID:
- 20873189
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 841, Issue 1; Conference: ERE 2005: 28. Spanish relativity meeting: A century of relativity physics, Oviedo, Asturias (Spain), 6-10 Sep 2006; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2218183; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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