Anthony Aguirre: Trick or Truth? | Buch

Cover: 9783319274942 | Trick or Truth? | Anthony Aguirre (u. a.) | Buch | Englisch | 2016

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Anthony Aguirre

Brendan Foster

Zeeya Merali

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	The Frontiers Collection
Inhalt:	viii 250 S. 8 s/w Illustr. 12 farbige Illustr. 250 p. 20 illus. 12 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319274942
ISBN-10:	3319274945
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Aguirre, Anthony Merali, Zeeya Foster, Brendan
Herausgeber:	Anthony Aguirre/Brendan Foster/Zeeya Merali
Auflage:	1st ed. 2016
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG The Frontiers Collection
Maße:	241 x 160 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Anthony Aguirre (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.03.2016
Gewicht:	0,559 kg

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