Science and Hypothesis
β Scribed by Henri Poincare
- Year
- 1952
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 272
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Nontechnical essays on hypothesis in physical theory, concept of number, magnitude, force, intuition vs. logic, more. Chapters include "On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning," "Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment," "Non-Euclidean Geometries," "Space and Geometry," "Experiment and Geometry," The Classical Mechanics," "Energy and Thermo-Dynamics," "Hypotheses in Physics," and "The Calculus of Probabilities."
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