Mind and Nature
：Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
Publication subTitle ：Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
Author： Weyl Hermann;Pesic Peter;Pesic Peter;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9781400833320
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691135458
Subject： O1-0 mathematical theory
Keyword： 自然科学理论与方法论,物理学,数学
Language： ENG
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Description
Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloquent writer with a lifelong interest in the philosophical implications of the startling new scientific developments with which he was so involved. Mind and Nature is a collection of Weyl's most important general writings on philosophy, mathematics, and physics, including pieces that have never before been published in any language or translated into English, or that have long been out of print. Complete with Peter Pesic's introduction, notes, and bibliography, these writings reveal an unjustly neglected dimension of a complex and fascinating thinker. In addition, the book includes more than twenty photographs of Weyl and his family and colleagues, many of which are previously unpublished.
Included here are Weyl's exposition of his important synthesis of electromagnetism and gravitation, which Einstein at first hailed as "a first-class stroke of genius"; two little-known letters by Weyl and Einstein from 1922 that give their contrasting views on the philosophical implications of modern physics; and an essay on time that contains Weyl's argument that the past is never completed and the present is not a point. Also included are two book-length series of lectures, The Open World (1932) and Mind and Nature (1934), each a masterly exposition of
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