[FOM] Hilbert's 6th Problem:Axioms for Physics

[Martin Davis]

Harvey quotes Hilbert on this. In reading what Hilbert said, it is 
important to keep in mind that this was in 1900 before relativity and 
quantum theory, when it might appear that physics as a field for 
fundamental investigation was coming to an end, and what was left was to 
tidy up the loose ends.

FOMers might also want to look at: "Hilbert's 6th Problem: Axioms for 
Physics" by
A.S. Wightman, in MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENTS ARISING FROM THE HILBERT 
PROBLEMS, Proc.Symposia in Pure Math., vol. 28(1976), pp. 147-240.

Martin