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On Meaningful Scientific Laws

By Jean-Claude Falmagne , Christopher Doble (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-662-46097-9, 978-3-662-46098-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-46098-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1517136 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 170\175
Time added
2015-11-25 16:51:03
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Description

The authors describe systematic methods for uncovering scientific laws a priori, on the basis of intuition, or “Gedanken Experiments”. Mathematical expressions of scientific laws are, by convention, constrained by the rule that their form must be invariant with changes of the units of their variables. This constraint makes it possible to narrow down the possible forms of the laws. It is closely related to, but different from, dimensional analysis. It is a mathematical book, largely based on solving functional equations. In fact, one chapter is an introduction to the theory of functional equations.

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