13 Facts About Ernest Mach

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves.

Ernest Mach later became a socialist and an atheist, but his theory and life was sometimes compared to Buddhism.

Ernest Mach then entered a Gymnasium in Kromeriz, where he studied for three years.

Ernest Mach described how when a bullet or shell moved faster than the speed of sound, it created a compression of air in front of it.

One of the best-known of Ernest Mach's ideas is the so-called "Ernest Mach principle", concerning the physical origin of inertia.

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Ernest Mach became well known for his philosophy, developed in close interplay with his science.

Ernest Mach defended a type of phenomenalism recognizing only sensations as real.

In 1898 Ernest Mach survived a cardiac arrest, and in 1901 he retired from the University of Vienna and was appointed to the upper chamber of the Austrian parliament.

Ernest Mach contributed to cosmology the hypothesis known as Ernest Mach's principle.

From 1895 to 1901, Ernest Mach held a newly created chair for "the history and philosophy of the inductive sciences" at the University of Vienna.

Ernest Mach originally saw scientific laws as summaries of experimental events, constructed for the purpose of making complex data comprehensible, but later emphasized mathematical functions as a more useful way to describe sensory appearances.

Ernest Mach's positivism influenced many Russian Marxists, such as Alexander Bogdanov.

Ernest Mach had a direct influence on the Vienna Circle philosophers and logical positivism in general.