How Weyl stumbled across electricity while pursuing mathematical justice

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dc.creatorAfriat, Alexander
dc.date2008-04-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:33:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:33:39Z
dc.descriptionIt is argued that Weyl's theory of gravitation and electricity came out of `mathematical justice': out of the equal rights direction and length. Such mathematical justice was manifestly at work in the context of discovery, and is enough (together with a couple of simple and natural operations) to derive all of source-free electromagnetism. Weyl's repeated references to coordinates and gauge are taken to express equal treatment of direction and length.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2947
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2947
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/159206
dc.subjectHistory and Philosophy of Physics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleHow Weyl stumbled across electricity while pursuing mathematical justice
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