The reasonable effectiveness of mathematics: Partial structures and the application of group theory to physics
DOI10.1023/A:1005246608001zbMATH Open1007.81005OpenAlexW2156508433MaRDI QIDQ1840971FDOQ1840971
Publication date: 7 March 2003
Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005246608001
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Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30)
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