Talk about toy models

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2016.11.002MaRDI QIDQ515365zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joshua Luczak

Publication date 13 March 2017

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/j.shpsb.2016.11.002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of mathematical modeling (00A71) Physics (00A79) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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