On Meaningful Scientific Laws

• Main Authors: Falmagne, Jean-Claude (Author), Doble, Christopher (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Philosophy and science.; Algorithms.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Difference equations.; Functional equations.; Computer Science.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Math Applications in Computer Science.; Difference and Functional Equations.; Philosophy of Science.

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 thei...