Trick or truth? : the mysterious connection between physics and mathematics /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Switzerland :
Springer,
[2016]
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| Series: | Frontiers collection.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Children of the cosmos (S. Wenmackers)
- Mathematics is Physics (M. S. Leifer)
- My god, it's full of clones: Living in a mathematical universe (M. Séguin)
- Let's consider two spherical chickens (T. Bolognesi)
- The raven and the writing desk (I. Durham)
- The deeper roles of mathematics in physical laws (K. H. Knuth)
- How mathematics meets the world (T. Maudlin)
- Mathematics: intuition's consistency check (K. Wharton)
- How not to factor a miracle (D. K. Wise)
- The language of nature (D. Garfinkle)
- Demystifying the applicability of mathematics (N. Fillion)
- Why mathematics works so well (N. S. Yanofsky)
- Genesis of a pythagorean universe (A. Burov)
- Beyond math (S. Magnusdottir)
- The descent of math (S. I. Walker)
- The ultimate tactics of self-referential systems (C. C. Dantas)
- Cognitive science and the connection between physics and mathematics (A. Gupta Mujumdar)
- A metaphorical chart of our mathematical ontology (P. Gibbs).-And the math will set you free (C. Stoica)
- Appendix: List of winners.