Ernst Mach

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Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)

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His epistemology began from a phenomenalist base. The philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach was very important in Hayek's development and to the atmosphere at the University of Vienna when Hayek was a student there. Alan O. Ebenstein

Morris Hickey Morgan BookV, Sec.6-8 Vitruvius article @Wikiquote Ernst Mach, Introduction to The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of its Development (1893, 1960) Tr. Source: Internet

Much later, Ernst Mach used the term Gedankenexperiment in a different way, to denote exclusively the imaginary conduct of a real experiment that would be subsequently performed as a real physical experiment by his students. Source: Internet

The number was named in honor of Ernst Mach Ernst Mach who first studied (among other things) supersonic flow and shock waves. Source: Internet

The ratio of the flow speed to the speed of sound was named the Mach number after Ernst Mach who was one of the first to investigate the properties of supersonic flow. Source: Internet

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