Description: This book identifies the organizing concepts of physical and biological phenomena by an analysis of the foundations of mathematics and physics. Our aim is to propose a dialog between different conceptual universes and thus to provide a unification of phenomena. The role of “order” and symmetries in the foundations of mathematics is linked to the main invariants and principles, among them the geodesic principle (a consequence of symmetries), which govern and confer unity to various physical theories. Moreover, an attempt is made to understand causal structures, a central element of physical intelligibility, in terms of both symmetries and symmetry breakings. A distinction between the principles of (conceptual) construction and of proofs, both in physics and in mathematics, guides most o...
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Author(s): Giuseppe Longo Francis Bailly
Publisher(s): World Scientific
Publish Date: 2011-03-04
Book Pages: 336
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 1908977795
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Subjects: Science / General • Science / Physics / General • Mathematics / General
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