Ernst Mach (1838 to 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher of science who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or an object to the speed of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher he was a major influence on logical positivism and on American pragmatism, and his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Born in Chrlice in Moravia, he studied at the University of Vienna, received a doctorate in physics in 1860, and later held professorships at Graz, in Prague and in Vienna, where from 1895 he held a chair for the history and philosophy of the inductive sciences.
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