Hopes and disappointments in Hilbert's axiomatic "foundations of physics"

Tilman Sauer

pp. 225-237

in: Michael Heidelberger, Friedrich Stadler (eds), History of philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

In the following, I should like to set up — following the axiomatic method — a new system of fundamental equations of physics, constructed essentially from two simple axioms; equations that are of ideal beauty and in which, as I believe, is contained the solution of both Einstein’s and Mie’s problems.1

Cited authors

Hilbert David