Article ID: CBB000720089

Pythagorean Heuristic in Physics (2006)

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Description Looks at the notion of the belief in the relationship of beauty, or aesthetics, and truth claims in science, especially among modern physicists.


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Authors & Contributors
David C. Clary
Emmet P. Harrington
Ekeberg, Bjorn
Wright, Aaron Sidney
Stuewer, Roger H.
Schmaltz, Tad M.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Foundations of Science
Publishers
Springer
University of Victoria (Canada)
Stanford University Press
Center for Louisiana Studies
Associação de Filosofia e História da Ciência do Cone Sul
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy of science
Truth
Theoretical physics
Electrodynamics
People
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Schrödinger, Erwin
Heisenberg, Werner
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Galilei, Galileo
Einstein, Albert
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
19th century
Places
England
Germany
Institutions
Florida State University
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Royal Society of London
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