Download or read book The Symbolic Universe written by Jeremy Gray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics was transformed between 1890 and 1930, and this volume provides a detailed history of the era and emphasizes the key role of geometrical ideas. Topics include the application of n-dimensional differential geometry to mechanics and theoretical physics, the philosophical questions on the reality of geometry, and the nature of geometry and its connections with psychology, special relativity, Hilbert's efforts to axiomatize relativity, and Emmy Noether's work in physics.