Applying mathematics : immersion, inference, interpretation
- 1st ed.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2018
- xvi,257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand? Bueno and French offer a new approach to the puzzle of the applicability of mathematics, through a detailed examination of a series of case studies from the history of twentieth-century physics.