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Mathematics wasn't unreasonable effective until the invention of the calculus. Indeed, mathematics-led physics was circling the drain with epicycles. As it tur
by thanatropism 8y ago
Mathematics wasn't unreasonable effective until the invention of the calculus. Indeed, mathematics-led physics was circling the drain with epicycles.
As it turns out, the calculus has a good correspondence with the idea of dynamical systems. No surprise that it was invented together with modern physics and to serve modern physics.
- soVeryTired 8y agoEpicycles have decent predictive power as a description of planetary motion. They're just needlessly complicated.
- Koshkin 8y agoIndeed it was always effective. Geometry was indispensable in architecture, mechanics, and geography; arithmetics, pretty much everywhere.