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  title info:
    title: On Meaningful Scientific Laws
  name:
    name part: Falmagne, Jean-Claude.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Doble, Christopher.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 1st ed. 2015.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 170 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Overview -- 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.
  note: by Jean-Claude Falmagne, Christopher Doble.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Algorithms
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Difference equations
  subject:
    topic: Functional equations
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Math Applications in Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Difference and Functional Equations
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  classification: QA76.9.A43
  classification: 005.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    record creation date: 150910
    record change date: 20151218092640.0
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