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(1994) Trends in the historiography of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Unification, geometry and ambivalence
Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen community
Skuli Sigurdsson
pp. 355-367
According to this theory everything real, that is in the world, is a manifestation of the world metric; the physical concepts are no different from the geometrical ones. The only difference that exists between geometry and physics is, that geometry establishes in general what is contained in the nature of the metrical concepts, whereas it is the task for physics to determine the law and explore its consequences, according to which the real world is characterized among all the geometrically possible four-dimensional metric spaces.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3596-4_25
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Sigurdsson, S. (1994)., Unification, geometry and ambivalence: Hilbert, Weyl and the Göttingen community, in K. Gavroglu, J. Christianidis & E. Nicolaidis (eds.), Trends in the historiography of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 355-367.
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