PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS WITHOUT COORDINATES
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS WITHOUT COORDINATES

Author(s): Walter Noll
Subject(s): History, Philosophy
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: Coordinates; lineons; Special relativity; General relativity; Continuum mechanics
Summary/Abstract: From Descartes until now, coordinates have played a useful and crucial role in combining the geometry as developed by the Greeks with the Analysis that began to be developed at the time. However, it is now obsolete to use coordinates when dealing with conceptual issues and more efficient to use more sophisticated mathematical tools. In the paper there is shown how to afford a mathematical physical problems without the use of coordinates.

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