Deriving meaningful scientific laws from abstract, ``gedanken type, axioms: five examples

DOI10.1007/S00010-015-0339-1MaRDI QIDQ2346356zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Claude Falmagne

Publication date 1 June 2015

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-015-0339-1

zbMATH Keywords

abstract Lorentz-FitzGerald contractionassociativity equationbisymmetry equationmeaningfulness conditionquasi-permutability equationscientific lawtranslation equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to difference and functional equations (39-02) General theory of functional equations and inequalities (39B05)

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