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In an essay entitled “Relativity Theory as a Stimulus in Mathematical Research” [1949:400] Weyl wrote:
For myself I can say that the wish to understand what really is the mathematical substance behind the formal apparatus of relativity theory led me to the study of representations and invariants of groups....
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Hawkins, T. (2000). From Relativity to Representations. In: Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1202-7_11
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