The paper argues that Jordan's 1952 axiomatic treatment of the covariant derivative, motivated by projective relativity, is a distinctive historical contribution despite a similar 1930 definition by Walther Mayer.
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Pascual Jordan's "Erweiterte Gravitationstheorie" - A Historical Analysis of its Mathematical Framework
The paper argues that Jordan's 1952 axiomatic treatment of the covariant derivative, motivated by projective relativity, is a distinctive historical contribution despite a similar 1930 definition by Walther Mayer.