Ernst Mach

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title: Ernst Mach
text: Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honour. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
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description: Austrian/Czech physicist, philosopher and university educator (1838–1916)
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date created: 2002-06-07T05:16:21Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T19:01:02Z
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