| 书目名称 | The Mathematical Representation of Physical Reality |
| 编辑 | Shahen Hacyan |
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| 概述 | Recounts the unreasonable and unexpected irruption of mathematics in the physical sciences.Explores mysterious and apparently unlimited effectiveness of mathematics in physics.Revisits the debate on i |
| 丛书名称 | The Frontiers Collection |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This book deals with the rise of mathematics in physical sciences, beginning with Galileo and Newton and extending to the present day. The book is divided into two parts. The first part gives a brief history of how mathematics was introduced into physics—despite its "unreasonable effectiveness" as famously pointed out by a distinguished physicist—and the criticisms it received from earlier thinkers. The second part takes a more philosophical approach and is intended to shed some light on that mysterious effectiveness. For this purpose, the author reviews the debate between classical philosophers on the existence of innate ideas that allow us to understand the world and also the philosophically based arguments for and against the use of mathematics in physical sciences. In this context, Schopenhauer’s conceptions of causality and matter are very pertinent, and their validity is revisited in light of modern physics. The final question addressed is whether the effectiveness of mathematics can be explained by its “existence” in an independent platonic realm, as Gödel believed..The book aims at readers interested in the history and philosophy of physics. It is accessible to those with |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 关键词 | mathematics in physics; history of physics; physics as mathematical representation; relativity theory; q |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21254-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-21256-7 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-21254-3Series ISSN 1612-3018 Series E-ISSN 2197-6619 |
| issn_series | 1612-3018 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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