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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2016

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319317779

Full citation:

Francesca Biagioli, Space, number, and geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Space, number, and geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer

Francesca Biagioli

Contents

Helmholtz's relationship to Kant

1-21

The discussion of Kant's transcendental aesthetic

23-50

Axioms, hypotheses, and definitions

51-80

Number and magnitude

81-116

Metrical projective geometry and the concept of space

117-149

Euclidean and non-euclidean geometries in the interpretation of physical measurements

151-188

Non-euclidean geometry and Einstein's general relativity

Cassirer's view in 1921

189-228