Tuning up mind's pattern to nature's own idea: Eddington's early twenties case for variational derivatives

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2010.03.001MaRDI QIDQ652828zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivahn Smadja

Publication date 17 December 2011

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.2010.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

eddingtonactiongauge invarianceHamilton's principlegeneral relativityEinsteinstructuralismHilbertWeyl

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) History of differential geometry (53-03) History of global analysis (58-03)

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