Scott A. Walter: Publications

Scott A. Walter

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Publications : Scott A. Walter


Articles dans les revues internationales à comité de lecture

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    The Poincaré pear and Poincaré-Darwin fission theory in astrophysics, 1885–1901. Philosophia Scientiæ 27(3), 2023, 159–187; doi 10.4000/philosophiascientiae.4178 [HTML] [PDF]

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    Poincaré on clocks in motion. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 47(1), 2014, 131–141; doi 10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.01.003 [HTML] [PDF]

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    Hermann Minkowski’s approach to physics. Mathematische Semesterberichte 55(2), 2008, 213–235; doi 10.1007/s00591-008-0044-4 [HTML] [PDF]

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    La vérité en géométrie : sur le rejet mathématique de la doctrine conventionnaliste. Philosophia Scientiæ 2(3), 1997, 103–135 [HTML] [PDF] [NUMDAM]

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    Henri Poincaré’s student notebooks, 1870–1878. Philosophia Scientiæ 1(4), 1996, 1–17 [HTML] [PDF] [NUMDAM]

Direction d’ouvrages

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    avec Philippe Nabonnand, Olivier Bruneau, Jeremy J. Gray, Gerhard Heinzmann, Philippe Henry, Jean Mawhin, David E. Rowe et Klaus Volkert (éds.). La Correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les mathématiciens. Cham: Birkhäuser, 925 p., 2024; doi 10.1007/978-3-7643-8288-9

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    with David Rowe and Tilman Sauer (eds.). Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century. New York: Birkhäuser, 492 p., 2018. ISBN 978-1-4939-7706-2; doi 10.1007/978-1-4939-7708-6

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    La Correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens. Basel: Birkhäuser, 391 p., 2016; doi 10.1007/978-3-7643-8293-3 [Website]

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    La Correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs. Basel: Birkhäuser, 515 p., 2007. ISBN: 978-3-7643-7136-4; doi 10.1007/978-3-7643-8303-9 [Website]

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    with Jeremy Gray (eds). Henri Poincaré : Trois suppléments sur la découverte des fonctions fuchsiennes. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1997. Mathematical Reviews MR1453360 (98m:01018) [HTML] [PDF]

Chapitres d’ouvrages collectifs

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    Describing and understanding the world: from probability and statistics to heat propagation and field theory. In T. Archibald & D.E. Rowe (eds.), A Cultural History of Mathematics, Volume 5: A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century, London: Bloomsbury, 2024, 161-191. [HTML]

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    Poincaré-Week in Göttingen in light of the Hilbert-Poincaré correspondence of 1908–1909. In Maria Teresa Borgato, Erwin Neuenschwander & Irène Passeron, eds, Mathematical Correspondences and Critical Editions, Cham: Birkhäuser, 2019, 297–310; doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73577-1_15; Mathematical Reviews, MR4305119. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Figures of light in the early history of relativity (1905–1914). In D. E. Rowe, T. Sauer, and S. A. Walter (eds.), Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century (Einstein Studies 14). New York: Birkhäuser, 2018, 3–50; doi 10.1007/978-1-4939-7708-6_1. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Ether and electrons in relativity (1900–1911). In J. Navarro, ed, Ether and Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 67–87; doi 10.1093/oso/9780198797258.003.0005. [HTML] [PDF]

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    The historical origins of spacetime. In A. Ashtekar and V. Petkov (eds.), Springer Handbook of Spacetime. Berlin: Springer, 2014, 27–38; doi 10.1007/978-3-642-41992-8. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Henri Poincaré, theoretical physics and relativity theory in Paris. In K.-H. Schlote and M. Schneider (eds.), Mathematics Meets Physics. Frankfurt am Main: Harri Deutsch, 2011, 213–239. [HTML] [PDF] Note: an SQL table (143 KB) of articles published on relativity between 1905 and 1916, to which this article refers, is available here.

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    Moritz Schlick’s reading of Poincaré’s theory of relativity. In F. O. Engler and M. Iven (eds.), Moritz Schlick: Ursprünge und Entwicklungen seines Denkens (Schlickiana 5). Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2010, 191–203. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Avec Gerhard Heinzmann. L’hypothèse naturelle, ou quatre jours dans la vie de Gerhard Heinzmann. In P. E. Bour, M. Rebuschi and L. Rollet (eds.), Construction: Festschrift for Gerhard Heinzmann. London: College Publications, 2010, 129–135. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Minkowski’s modern world. In V. Petkov (ed.), Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later. Berlin: Springer, 2010, 43–61; doi 10.1007/978-90-481-3475-5_2. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Hypothesis and convention in Poincaré’s defense of Galilei spacetime. In Michael Heidelberger & Gregor Schiemann (eds.), The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, 193–219; doi 10.1515/9783110210620.193. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Henri Poincaré et l’espace-temps conventionnel. In I. Smadja (ed.), Réalisme et théories physiques (Cahiers de philosophie de l’Université de Cæn 45). Cæn: Presses universitaires de Cæn, 2008, 87–119; doi 10.4000/cpuc.1301. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Breaking in the 4-vectors: the four-dimensional movement in gravitation, 1905–1910. In Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel (eds.), The Genesis of General Relativity, 4 vols. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 250), Volume 3, Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: Between Mechanics, Field Theory, and Astronomy. Berlin: Springer, 2007, 193–252, doi 10.1007/978-1-4020-4000-9_18. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Minkowski, mathematicians, and the mathematical theory of relativity. In Hubert Goenner, Jürgen Renn, Jim Ritter and Tilman Sauer (eds.), The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity (Einstein Studies 7). Boston: Birkhäuser, 1999, 45–86. [HTML] [PDF]

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    The non-Euclidean style of Minkowskian relativity. In Jeremy Gray (ed.), The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics, 1890–1930. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 91–127. Mathematical Reviews 2001g:01032. [HTML] [PDF]

Actes publiés de conférences internationales, congrès et colloques

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    Describing and understanding the world in the long nineteenth century: from probability and statistics to field theory. Oberwolfach Reports 41/2020, 2020, 52–53, doi 10.4171/OWR/2020/41. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Mathematical Milky Way models from Kelvin and Kapteyn to Poincaré, Jeans and Einstein. Oberwolfach Reports 12(4), 2015, 2081–2082. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Discipline and style in relativity theory, 1905–1915. Oberwolfach Reports 7(1), 2010. [PDF]

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    It’s only a model: spacetime geometry in the transition from Galilean to relativistic kinematics. Oberwolfach Reports 5(2), 2008. [PDF]

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    Who’s a conventionalist? Henri Poincaré’s correspondence with physicists. Oberwolfach Reports 4(2), 2005, 3202–3203; doi 10.14760/OWR-2005-56. [PDF]

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    La solution de Kaluza au problème d’Ehrenfest. In Dominique Flament (ed.), Dimension, dimensions (I). Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1999. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Truth in geometry : metrical conventions and Minkowskian relativity. In Dominique Flament (ed.), Histoires de géométries : textes du séminaire de l’année 1996, 61–76. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1998. [HTML]

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    The Sonar Ring: obstacle detection for a mobile robot. Proceedings 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Volume 3, IEEE Robotics and Automation Council (ed.), Washington: Computer Society Press, 1987, 1574–1579; doi 10.1109/ROBOT.1987.1087902. [PDF]

Comptes-rendus

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    Anke te Heesen, Revolutionäre im Interview: Thomas Kuhn, Quantenphysik und Oral History (Berlin, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022), Revue d’histoire des sciences 76(2), 2023, 498–501; doi 10.3917/rhs.762.0498. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Javier Anta, Information, meaning and physics: the intellectual evolution of the English School of Information Theory during 1946–1956. Mathematical Reviews, MR4556943, 2023. [HTML]

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    Alessandro Rosa, An episodic history of the staircased iteration diagram. Mathematical Reviews, MR4467503, 2023. [HTML]

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    Jean-Philippe Martinez, The Fock-Infeld dispute: an illustration of the renaissance of general relativity in the Soviet Union. Mathematical Reviews, MR4305121, 2023. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Gerard Gilmore and Gudrun Tausch-Pebody, The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told. Mathematical Reviews, MR4409390, 2022. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Roberto Lalli, Howey, Riaz and Wintergrün, Dirk, The socio-epistemic networks of general relativity, 1925–1970. Mathematical Reviews, MR4305119, 2022. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Roberto Lalli, Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community During the Cold War. Centaurus 61, 2020, 451–453; doi 10.1111/1600-0498.12230. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics. Edited by Abhay Ashtekar et al. American Journal of Physics 72(7), 2004, 974–975; doi 10.1119/1.1761068. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Beyond the Einstein Addition Law and the Gyroscopic Thomas Precession, by Abraham A. Ungar. Foundations of Physics 32(2), 2002, 327–330. [HTML] [PDF]

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    How Maxwell made his mark: Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein, by Olivier Darrigol. Nature 409, 2001-01-18, 283–284; doi 10.1038/35053149. [HTML] [PDF]

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    The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 6. Edited by Anne J. Kox et al. Revue d’histoire des sciences 52, 1999, 163–164. [HTML] [PDF]

Vulgarisations et traductions

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    L’histoire des sciences pour les robots : les humanités numériques aux Archives Henri Poincaré. La lettre de l’INSHS, N° 29, mai 2014. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Hermann Minkowski and the scandal of spacetime. ESI News (Vienna) 3(1), 2008, 6–8. [HTML] [PDF]

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    On the dynamics of the electron, by Henri Poincaré (1906). Translated from the French by Scott A. Walter. In Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel (eds.), The Genesis of General Relativity, Volume 3, Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: Between Mechanics, Field Theory, and Astronomy, 253–271. Berlin: Springer, 2007. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Poincaré, Henri. In Noretta Koertge (ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 6, 121–125. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2007. [HTML] [PDF]

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    Poincaré, Henri. In John Merriman and Jay Winter (eds.), Europe 1789–1914, Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, Volume 4: 1805–1806. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2006. [HTML]

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    Henri Poincaré and the theory of relativity. In Jürgen Renn (ed.), Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe: 100 Authors for Einstein, 162–165. Berlin: Wiley-VCH, 2005. [HTML]

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    Henri Poincaré und die Relativitätstheorie. In Jürgen Renn (ed.), Albert Einstein, Ingenieur des Universums: 100 Autoren für Einstein, 162–165. Berlin: Wiley-VCH, 2005. [PDF]

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    Éther. In Dominique Lecourt (ed.), Dictionnaire d’histoire et philosophie des sciences, 381–384. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1999. [HTML] [PDF, 4e éd.]

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    Interview with René Girard. Birth of Tragedy, Power issue, May–July, 1985. Reedited in Cynthia L. Haven (ed.), Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, 21–31. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. [HTML][PDF]

Documentaires

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    A la recherche de Henri Poincaré. Web documentaire de 12 minutes produit par Vidéoscop, réalisé par Philippe Thomine en 2011.

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    Avec Gerhard Heinzmann. Le monde est-il mathématique ? Documentaire de 52 minutes produit par Vidéoscop, réalisé par Philippe Thomine en 2004. N° 4 de la série Sciences et philosophie. Les Amphis de France 5 : Philosophie.

Média

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    Letter to the Editor. Isis 99(2), 2008, 374; doi 10.1086/588695. [HTML]

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    La Bibliographie d’Henri Poincaré. Publication électronique de la bibliographie de Henri Poincaré (2002) : henripoincarepapers.univ-nantes.fr/bibliohp/

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    La Correspondance d’Henri Poincaré. Publication en ligne de la correspondance et des manuscrits divers d’Henri Poincaré, sous forme d’images numérisées, et de transcriptions annotées (2002) : henripoincarepapers.univ-nantes.fr/corresphp/

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    Henri Poincaré : Les cahiers de jeunesse 1870–1878. Édition sur microfilm de dix-sept cahiers de jeunesse d’Henri Poincaré avec une notice de synthèse et une table des matières, 1993. Institutions dépositaires : SPHERE (UMR 7596), Paris; Archives Henri Poincaré (UMR 7117), Nancy; American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library, College Park, Maryland.

Thèse

  • Hermann Minkowski et la mathématisation de la théorie de la relativité restreinte, 1905–1915. Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7), 1996. [PDF]

  • La pagination et les figures de la version électronique diffèrent de la version soutenue, mais le texte et les données sont conformes à l’originale. Les références bibliographiques (SQL, 143 KO) des articles relativistes publiés entre 1905 et 1916 dans les périodiques scientifiques, dont le quatrième chapitre de la thèse fait l’analyse, sont disponibles au format SQL. La version actuelle de la table comprend 662 titres, dont vingt-trois contiennent un terme faisant référence à la gravitation; ces vingt-trois titres étaient négligés en 1996.

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