Timeline for About Hilbert and Physics [duplicate]
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| Jul 27, 2014 at 6:48 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Jul 27, 2014 at 5:17 | history | edited | user128932 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2014 at 8:17 | history | closed |
user10851 Brandon Enright JamalS John Rennie Neuneck |
Duplicate of What happened with Hilbert's sixth problem (the axiomatization of physics) after Gödel's work? | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 5:08 | comment | added | joseph f. johnson | @mhodel Hilbert also discovered the Hilbert--Einstein action functional, whose minimisation yields the Einstein equation of General Relativity. He also worked on the foundational problem of what happens to causality in GR, and found a solution to his own satisfaction. Because of his interest in GR, he provoked Noether to prove her famous conservation--symmetry theorem, used all the time in Physics. | |
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| Jun 3, 2014 at 4:37 | history | edited | joseph f. johnson |
signal processing uses the Wiener-Khintchine theorem, and is highly relevant, too
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| Jun 3, 2014 at 4:31 | answer | added | joseph f. johnson | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 5, 2014 at 9:03 | comment | added | doetoe | It was: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_sixth_problem | |
| May 4, 2014 at 23:37 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| May 4, 2014 at 23:36 | comment | added | user128932 | Wasn't it one of Hibert's 23 questions he presented to contempory scientists? Even if I'm wrong could physics have an axiomatic foundation? | |
| May 4, 2014 at 23:36 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Possible duplicates: physics.stackexchange.com/q/87239/2451 and links therein. | |
| May 4, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | mhodel | I may be wrong, but I think you might be confusing two separate areas of Hilbert's work. His relevance in physics, from what I know, has mainly to do with Hilbert spaces, which form the mathematical foundation for quantum mechanics. Hilbert also spent a lot of time thinking about the foundations of mathematics itself--taking on an axiomatic approach like you describe. He was one of many mathematicians trying to make this work. The best model is ZFC set theory (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_theory), but Godel eventually proved such a result impossible. | |
| May 4, 2014 at 23:25 | history | asked | user128932 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |