Mathematics and Natural Laws (The History of the Development of the Scientific Language)

Author: (American) Taback, written by Wang Hui, translated by Hu Yunzhi
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: What is the law of nature? No one can give a clear answer. Humans have been searching for fundamental principles that govern the material world since ancient times. The ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians acknowledged that there must be some laws or regularities hidden in the world they lived in. Over thousands of years, the laws of nature have been continuously discovered and categorized into various disciplines according to certain criteria, with mathematics being one of them. Discovering and refining the law of nature is the pursuit of all scientists, and because of its precision, expressing natural laws mathematically has become the foundation of many scientific researches. Due to the uncertainty and limitations of natural laws, scientists from Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Da Vinci to the present have been practicing, discovering, and utilizing existing natural laws to verify the achievements of previous scientific research. This book records the formation process of various important laws in mathematics and physics over five thousand years and the stories of their discoverers.