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Making predictions within a framework, however extrapolated from the beginning, and coming up with a framework is precisely the qualitative difference that sepa
by davidivadavid 4y ago
Making predictions within a framework, however extrapolated from the beginning, and coming up with a framework is precisely the qualitative difference that separates them and that is not being taught when people ask for recipes instead of understanding.
- drdeca 4y agoBy “framework” I don’t mean “sequence of steps”, but overall structure of the theory. Newton did not know e.g. the formulation of stuff in terms of Hamiltonians, even though it is still in a sense in the same framework. I don’t think studying the Latin is helpful in coming up with reformulations of physics things.
- davidivadavid 4y agoYou're proving my point for me: "At age ten, he stumbled across a Latin copy of Euclid; and at twelve he studied Newton's Arithmetica Universalis. He moved on to read the Principia, and by age 16 he had covered much of it, as well as some more recent works on analytic geometry and the differential calculus." (from the Wikipedia article about Hamilton).