The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... geometry might yet be a consistent deductive system , important in its own right.24 Although Gauss appears to have derived one or two seemingly paradoxical theorems of a non - Euclidean character , the first comprehensive accounts of a ...
... geometry might yet be a consistent deductive system , important in its own right.24 Although Gauss appears to have derived one or two seemingly paradoxical theorems of a non - Euclidean character , the first comprehensive accounts of a ...
Síða 74
... non - Euclidean geometry as something more than a useful analytical device . But hydrodynamics , elasticity and Max- wellian electrodynamics were all discussed at length in non - Euclidean terms , and one can even find a discussion of ...
... non - Euclidean geometry as something more than a useful analytical device . But hydrodynamics , elasticity and Max- wellian electrodynamics were all discussed at length in non - Euclidean terms , and one can even find a discussion of ...
Síða 77
... non- Euclidean geometry , a lull which was hardly disturbed even by Riemann's paper in which spherical non - Euclidean geometry was investigated analytically . Important obstacles were no doubt the Kantian doctrine of space - against ...
... non- Euclidean geometry , a lull which was hardly disturbed even by Riemann's paper in which spherical non - Euclidean geometry was investigated analytically . Important obstacles were no doubt the Kantian doctrine of space - against ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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