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100 1 _aFalmagne, Jean-Claude.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aOn Meaningful Scientific Laws
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Jean-Claude Falmagne, Christopher Doble.
250 _a1st ed. 2015.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2015.
300 _aXIII, 170 p. 1 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aOverview -- Extensive Measurement -- Functional Equations -- Abstract Axioms and their Representations -- Defining Meaningfulness -- Meaningfullness and Dimensional Invariance -- Propagating Axioms via Meaningfulness -- Meaningful Representation of Scientific Codes -- Order Invariance under Transformations -- Open Problems -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aComputer science.
650 0 _aPhilosophy and science.
650 0 _aAlgorithms.
650 0 _aComputer science
_xMathematics.
650 0 _aDifference equations.
650 0 _aFunctional equations.
650 1 4 _aComputer Science.
650 2 4 _aAlgorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.
650 2 4 _aMath Applications in Computer Science.
650 2 4 _aDifference and Functional Equations.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Science.
700 1 _aDoble, Christopher.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46098-6
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