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I.—Some Philosophical Aspects of Modern Physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Max Born
Max Born
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University of Edinburgh
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The Chair which I have been elected to occupy, in succession to Professor Darwin, is associated with the name of a great scholar of our fathers' generation, Peter Guthrie Tait. This name has been familiar to me from the time when I first began to study mathematical physics. At that time Felix Klein was the leading figure in a group of outstanding mathematicians at Göttingen, amongst them Hilbert and Minkowski. I remember how Klein, ever eager to link physics with mathematics, missed no opportunity of pointing out to us students the importance of studying carefully the celebrated Treatise on Natural Philosophy of Thomson and Tait, which became a sort of Bible of mathematical science for us.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 57 , 1938 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1938

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