Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science by Hermann Weyl

Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science by Hermann Weyl

Examines how advances in philosophy were led by scientific discoveries - the more humankind understood about the physical world, the more curious we became. Drawing on work by Descartes, Galileo, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, and Newton, this book helps readers understand science through the lens of philosophy.

"The translation has long been out of print, so this recent publication, with a very fine introduction by Frank Wilczek, is to be highly valued.. Weyl's Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science should be on every mathematician's or physicist's bookshelf... What a pleasure, what a privilege, to read and contemplate Hermann Weyl's monumental achievements."--Jeremy Butterfield, Physics Today "[W]e remain ever grateful that Hermann Weyl, compromising his conscience to the extent that he did, left behind this unrivaled treasure of insights into the murkiest epistemological depths of mathematics and theoretical physics."--Thomas Ryckman, Metascience

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. Born and educated in Germany, he taught at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1933 until his retirement in 1951. He published five books with Princeton University Press, including "Symmetry and The Classical Groups". Frank Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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ISBN 13	9780691141206
ISBN 10	0691141207
Title	Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science
Author	Hermann Weyl
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2009-05-17
Number of pages	336
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