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Trick or Truth?: The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics de Anthony Aguirre

Trick or Truth?: The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics: The Frontiers Collection

Editat de Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, Zeeya Merali
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mar 2016
The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the result of human creativity? Does physics simply wear mathematics like a costume, or is math the lifeblood of physical reality?
The nineteen wide-ranging, highly imaginative and often entertaining essays are enhanced versions of the prize-winning entries to the FQXi essay competition “Trick or Truth”, which attracted over 200 submissions.
The Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319274942
ISBN-10: 3319274945
Pagini: 233
Ilustrații: VIII, 250 p. 20 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria The Frontiers Collection

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Public țintă

Upper undergraduate

Cuprins

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 mathematicalontology (P. Gibbs).-And the math will set you free (C. Stoica).- Appendix: List of winners.

Recenzii

“The entries were rigorously judged and this book is a collection of the best entries. … the content is accessible to the general, albeit knowledgeable, reader. These essays are very well written. The result is a great book in the philosophy of science, the relationship between the human brain and its ability to abstract to the way the universe runs as a consequence of the values of the fundamental constants of physics.” (Charles Ashbacher, MAA Reviews, maa.org, August, 2016)

Notă biografică

Anthony Aguirre
Brendan Foster
Zeeya Merali

Textul de pe ultima copertă

The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the result of human creativity? Does physics simply wear mathematics like a costume, or is math the lifeblood of physical reality?
The nineteen wide-ranging,  highly imaginative and often entertaining essays are enhanced versions of the prize-winning entries to the FQXi essay competition “Trick or Truth”, which attracted over 200 submissions.
The Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

Caracteristici

A stimulating collection of arguments and ideas that will fascinate physicists, philosophers, mathematicians and lay readers alike Includes essays specially rewarded for their entertainment and creative/out-of-the-box thinking Published in cooperation with the renowned physics "think-tank" Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras