Two Cultures Essays in Honour of David Speiser
David Speiser is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he taught mathematics and physics from 1963 to 1990. His work in history of science included various publications, some of which are related to art history.
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Two Cultures Essays in Honour of David Speiser
Kim Williams Editor
Birkhäuser Verlag Basel • Boston • Berlin
Editor: Kim Williams Kim Williams Books Via Cavour, 8 10123 Torino Italy e-mail: [email protected]
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 00B30
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at . ISBN 3-7643-7186-2 Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel – Boston – Berlin This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. For any kind of use permission of the copyright owner must be obtained. © 2006 Birkhäuser Verlag, P.O. Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland Part of Springer Science+Business Media Cover illustrations: Giovanni Bellini, Sacra Conversazione, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Root diagram of SU(3) and its lattice gc. Diagram by Jean-Pierre Antoine. Translation from French to English for this volume by Sylvie Duvernoy. Translation from Italian to English for this volume by Kim Williams. Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp. TCF ∞ Printed in Germany ISBN-10: 3-7643-7186-2 e-ISBN: 3-7643-7540-X ISBN-13: 978-3-763-7186-9 987654321
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Contents Introduction Luigi A. RADICATI DI BROZOLO. Foreword..........................................................................1 Kim WILLIAMS. Reflections on Interdisciplinarianism..........................................................3
The Sciences Jean-Pierre ANTOINE. David Speiser’s Group Theory: From Stiefel’s Crystallographic Approach to Kac-Moody Algebras .....................................13 David Ritz FINKELSTEIN. Whither Quantum Theory? .......................................................25 Laszlo GRENACS. The Direct Determination of the Induced Pseudoscalar Current (and about the slow metamorphosis of an institution) ........................................................39 Giuseppe LA ROCCA and Luigi RADICATI DI BROZOLO. In Praise of Asymmetry ...............45 Donal HURLEY and Michael VANDYCK. An Observation about the Huygens Clock Problem.....................................................................................59
The History of Science Frans A. CERULUS. Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler on the Jetski ..............................73 Giulio MALTESE. On the Changing Fortune of the Newtonian Tradition in Mechanics ....97 Patricia RADELET-DE GRAVE. Studies of Magnetism in the Correspondence of Daniel Bernoulli ......................................................................115 Piero VILLAGGIO. On Enriques’s Foundations of Mechanics............................................133 Sandro CAPARRINI. On
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