`Nature is the realisation of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas': Einstein and the canon of mathematical simplicity
DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00035-0zbMATH Open1222.01032OpenAlexW1985228317MaRDI QIDQ720376FDOQ720376
Authors: John D. Norton 
Publication date: 14 October 2011
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1355-2198(99)00035-0
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