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The Pythagorean world: why mathematics is unreasonably effective in physics

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 “ev...

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Autor principal: McDonnell, Jane
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2307395