By Cassirer, Ernst
ISBN-10: 0486200507
ISBN-13: 9780486200507
A superb sleek thinker propounds a procedure of proposal within which Einstein's idea of relativity is considered the average development of the reasons inherent to arithmetic and the actual sciences. comprises such issues mechanism and movement; Mayer's method of average technological know-how; Richter's convinced proportions; Einstein's relativity and "reality;" extra. 1923 variation
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