The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related
to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of
physics in mathematics and to investigate "Mathematical Physics" as
precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this
dialectical link itself. So the main question is: "When and why did
the tension between mathematics and physics, explicitly practised
at least since Galileo, evolve into such a new scientific theory?
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The authors explain the various ways in which this science
allowed an advanced mathematical modelling in physics on the one
hand, and the invention of new mathematical ideas on the other
hand. Of course this problem is related to the links between
institutions, universities, schools for engineers, and industries,
and so it has social implications as well.
The link by which physical ideas had influenced the world of
mathematics was not new in the 19th century, but it came to a kind
of maturity at that time. Recently, much historical research has
been done into mathematics and physics and their relation in this
period. The purpose of the Symposium and this book is to gather and
re-evaluate the current thinking on this subject. It brings
together contributions from leading experts in the field, and gives
much-needed insight in the subject of mathematical physics from a
historical point of view.
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