Abstract
Focuses on an article by scientist David Hilbert which attracted the attention of historians of science due to similarity between his field equations of gravitation and those presented by scientist Albert Einstein as the correct generally-covariant equations of gravitation. Study of the molecular theory of matter; Contribution of Hilbert to radiation theory; Axiomatization of physics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 489-527 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Journal | Archive for History of Exact Sciences |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| State | Published - 1 Oct 1998 |
Keywords
- HILBERT, David, 1862-1943
- EINSTEIN, Albert, 1879-1955
- GRAVITY
- PHYSICS
- SCIENTISTS