On Hilbert's Sixth Problem

This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analytico–canonical formalism. Throughout the text, the investigation stresses that classical mechanics in its Lagrangian formulation is the formal backbone of theoretical physics. The authors start from a presentation...

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Main Authors: da Costa, Newton C. A., Doria, Francisco Antonio (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Foreword -- 1. Preliminary -- Part I. Physics: A Primer. 2. Classical mechanics -- 3. Variational calculus -- 4. Lagrangian formulation -- 5. Hamilton’s equations -- 6. Hamilton–Jacobi theory -- 7. Where the action is -- 8. From classical to quantum -- 9. Field theory -- 10. Electromagnetism -- 11. Special relativity -- 12. General relativity -- 13. Gauge field theories -- Part II. Axiomatics. 14. Axiomatizations in ZFC -- Part III. Technicalities. 15. Hierarchies -- Part IV. More applications. 16. Arnol’d’s 1974 problems -- 17. Forcing and gravitation -- 18. Economics and ecology -- Part V. Computer science. 19. Fast–growing functions -- Part VI. Hypercomputation. 20. Hypercomputation -- References 
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520 |a This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analytico–canonical formalism. Throughout the text, the investigation stresses that classical mechanics in its Lagrangian formulation is the formal backbone of theoretical physics. The authors start from a presentation of the analytico–canonical formalism for classical mechanics, and its applications in electromagnetism, Schrödinger's quantum mechanics, and field theories such as general relativity and gauge field theories, up to the Higgs mechanism. The analysis uses the main criterion used by physicists for a theory: to formulate a physical theory we write down a Lagrangian for it. A physical theory is a particular instance of the Lagrangian functional. So, there is already an unified physical theory. One only has to specify the corresponding Lagrangian (or Lagrangian density); the dynamical equations are the associated Euler–Lagrange equations. The theory of Suppes predicates as the main tool in the axiomatization and examples from the usual theories in physics. For applications, a whole plethora of results from logic that lead to interesting, and sometimes unexpected, consequences. This volume looks at where our physics happen and which mathematical universe we require for the description of our concrete physical events. It also explores if we use the constructive universe or if we need set–theoretically generic spacetimes