| Author | : Claude Chevalley |
| File Size | : 48,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 13 December 1996 |
| ISBN | : 3540570632 |
| Pages | : 232 pages |
The Algebraic Theory of Spinors and Clifford Algebras by Claude Chevalley Book PDF Summary
In 1982, Claude Chevalley expressed three specific wishes with respect to the publication of his Works. First, he stated very clearly that such a publication should include his non technical papers. His reasons for that were two-fold. One reason was his life long commitment to epistemology and to politics, which made him strongly opposed to the view otherwise currently held that mathematics involves only half of a man. As he wrote to G. C. Rota on November 29th, 1982: "An important number of papers published by me are not of a mathematical nature. Some have epistemological features which might explain their presence in an edition of collected papers of a mathematician, but quite a number of them are concerned with theoretical politics ( . . . ) they reflect an aspect of myself the omission of which would, I think, give a wrong idea of my lines of thinking". On the other hand, Chevalley thought that the Collected Works of a mathematician ought to be read not only by other mathematicians, but also by historians of science.
