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Encyclopedia > Philipp Frank

Philipp Frank was an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle.


His books include:

  • The Philosophy of Science

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Frank biography (687 words)
Frank received his habilitation and was appointed a lecturer in the University of Vienna in 1910.
Frank, Hahn and von Mises became part of the somewhat larger group active during the 1920s in the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists.
Frank worked on a wide range of topics in mathematics, and when one takes into account his publications on physics and philosophy it was a truly remarkable breadth.
Philipp Frank - Wikipedia (276 words)
Frank schrieb eine Arbeit über Kausalität, von der Albert Einstein beeindruckt war und es gab einen regen Austausch zwischen beiden.
Auf Einsteins Empfehlung wurde Frank in 1912 sein Nachfolger an der Deutschen Universität in Prag, wo er bis 1938 blieb.
Frank arbeitete auf verschiedenen Gebieten der Mathematik und Physik: Variationsrechnung, Fourierreihen, Funktionenräume, geometrische Optik, Schrödinger'sche Wellenmechanik und Relativitätstheorie.
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