Outline of a dynamical inferential conception of the application of mathematics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.01.004zbMath1307.83004OpenAlexW2131448801MaRDI QIDQ2261517

Tilman Sauer, Tim Räz

Publication date: 6 March 2015

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.01.004

zbMATH Keywords

Einsteinapplicability of mathematicsabsolute differential calculusgenesis of general relativityGrossmanninferential conception

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Physics (00A79)

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• Theories

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