To write this book the author has delved deeply into the histories of both Mathematics and Physics, and the result has been an original analysis of one of mankind's most successful intellectual achievements. The initial impulse for the development of Mathematical Physics began with classical Greek/Euclidean geometry and thence through the ideas of Algebra, founded by Arabian mathematicians, until it has flowered, initially in Western Europe, but now worldwide. In the twentieth century a new level of mathematical thought has arisen by the development of the ideas of Topology, both Point-set...