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Noether's theorem is kind of a grand closure of natural science. It's one of those theorems that gives the sensation of transcending its axiomatic setting and r
by thanatropism 7y ago
Noether's theorem is kind of a grand closure of natural science. It's one of those theorems that gives the sensation of transcending its axiomatic setting and reveal deep philosophical truth.
Compare Arrow's impossibility theorem, which is set in the much more familiar realm of order theory, but still appears to say something about the real world.