From quaternions to cosmology: spaces of constant curvature, ca. 1873-1925
| dc.creator | Epple, Moritz | |
| dc.date | 2003-05-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:57:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:57:40Z | |
| dc.description | After mathematicians and physicists had learned that the structure of physical space was not necessarily Euclidean, it became conceivable that the global topological structure of space was non-trivial. In the context of the late 19th century debates on physical space this speculation gave rise to the problem of classifying spaces of constant curvature from a topological point of view. William Kingdon Clifford, Felix Klein and Wilhelm Killing, the latter of whom devoted a substantial amount of work to the topic in the early 1890s, clearly perceived this problem as relevant for both mathematics and natural philosophy (i.e., physics or cosmology). To some extent, a cosmological interest may even be found among those authors who restated the space form problem in more modern terms in the early 20th century, such as Heinz Hopf. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305023 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305023 | |
| dc.identifier | Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002, vol. 3, 935--946 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/67339 | |
| dc.subject | History and Overview | |
| dc.subject | 01A55, 01A60, 53-03, 57-03 | |
| dc.title | From quaternions to cosmology: spaces of constant curvature, ca. 1873-1925 | |
| dc.type | text |