Trick or truth? : the mysterious connection between physics and mathematics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Aguirre, Anthony (Anthony Nicholas) (Editor), Foster, Brendan (Brendan Zdon) (Editor), Merali, Zeeya (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Series:Frontiers collection.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.