The Importance of Concepts for Science

Kim Williams ()
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A chapter in Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art, 2011, pp 53-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract When I lectured at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, I regularly observed in the lunchroom a lean professor with a somewhat haggard face who always ate with a great appetite, but whose name I could not make out. But then the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale of the University of Pisa organized a lecture by Clifford Truesdell. Luckily I sat next to Charlotte Truesdell, who answered my question, “This is Villaggio,” emphasizing, “He is very good!” She then introduced me to him, and since then we had more and more contacts. He even honored me by participating in my seminars. He became an editor of a volume of the works of Bernoulli, he helped me with an article on Galileo,2 which he translated, and, best of all, a good friendship grew between us. For all this I am deeply grateful to Piero and in these lines will try to show it!

Keywords: Exclusion Principle; Rectilinear Motion; Galilei Group; Outer Pressure; Mathematical Quantity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0139-3_5

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