The Pythagorean World: Why Mathematics Is Unreasonably Effective in Physics
McDonnell, Jane
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2016-11-24
- 售價: $5,160
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,902
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 394
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3319409751
- ISBN-13: 9783319409757
-
相關分類:
物理學 Physics
下單後立即進貨 (約1週~2週)
相關主題
商品描述
This book explores precisely how mathematics allows us to model and predict the behaviour of physical systems, to an amazing degree of accuracy. One of the oldest explanations for this is that, in some profound way, the structure of the world is mathematical. The ancient Pythagoreans stated that "everything is number". However, while exploring the Pythagorean method, this book chooses to add a second principle of the universe: the mind. This work defends the proposition that mind and mathematical structure are the grounds of reality.
作者簡介
Jane McDonnell is Adjunct Research Associate in the Philosophy Department at Monash University, Australia. She has doctorates in both theoretical physics and philosophy and over twenty years' experience applying mathematics in academia and industry. She has authored or co-authored more than eighty technical papers in physics, mathematics, finance and philosophy.
