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However, the skills learnt from subjects such as mathematics and physics are everlasting and applicable to many different fields. I was fascinated by the physical processes that underlie information processing, so studied physics and computerscience initially. Dirk’s top tip Take all the mathematics classes you can!
And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. From mathematics. Mathematical physics. Computation theory. By the late 1970s, though, there were other initiatives emerging, particularly coming from mathematics and mathematical physics.
Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines. It’s just something that’s mathematically simple, and we’re used to the fact that lots of data we measure turns out to be well fit by mathematically simple things.
Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Joanna believes the third pillar of scientific discovery is computer simulation, a technique which is becoming increasingly popular. Scientific imaging in physics.
But in the rare cases its been used in mathematics its typically been to confirm things that were already believed to be true. It is, I think, an interesting challengethat gets at the heart of what one can (and cant) expect to achieve with formalized mathematics. But what about something more like a theory in naturalscience?
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