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Publications - Relativity
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"Mie’s Electromagnetic Theory of Matter and the Background to Hilbert’s Unified Foundations of Physics" in Joseph Kouneiher (ed.) Foundations of Mathematics and Physics One Century After Hilbert - New Perspectives, New York, Spriner (2018): 75-96. (Parts of this article appeared in my previous work on Hilbert, and particularly in this publication.)
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"Hilbert's 6th Problem: Between the Foundations of Geometry and the Axiomatization of Physics",
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society (A), 376 (2118); 28 April 2018.
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"Albert Einstein and
Relativity: One Hundred Years of History - One Hundred years of
Historiography" (Hebrew),
Zmanim - Quarterly Journal of History, Tel-Aviv, 71 (2007): 58-69
אלברט אינשטיין ותורת היחסות: מאה
שנים של היסטוריה - מאה שנים של היסטוריוגרפיה,
זמנים
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"The Origin of Hilbert's Axiomatic Method". In: Jürgen Renn et
al (eds.).
The Genesis of General Relativity, Vol. 4
Theories of Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics:
The Promise of Mathematics and the Dream of a Unified Theory, New
York, Springer (2006), pp. 139-236.
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"Axiomatics, Empiricism, and Anschauung in Hilbert´s Conception
of Geometry: Between Arithmetic and General Relativity". In:
Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós (eds.) The Architecture of Modern
Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University
Press (2006), 155-176.
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"Relativity and Mathematics", in
The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective
Bibliography, Edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Revised Edition on CD-ROM,
Albert C. Lewis in Cooperation with the International Comission on the
History of Mathematics, Providence, The American Mathematical Society
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"From Mie's Electromagnetic Theory of Matter to Hilbert's Foundations of
Physics"
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
30(2): 159-183 (1999). |
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"Einstein, Hilbert y la Teoría General de la Relatividad",
Investigación y Ciencia 206 (Nov. 1998): 28-34. |
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"Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein
Priority Dispute" (with Jürgen Renn and John Stachel),
Science 278: 1270-1273 (Nov. 14, 1998).
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“Hermann Minkowski and the Postulate of Relativity”,
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
51: 281-314 (1997). |
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