His new book, "The Theoretical Minimum", co-written with George Hrabovsky, an amateur physicist, is a primer for readers who want to know how to think like a physicist.Can you outline what we know about string theory?The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way.
We have been won over by the mathematical theory and CERN's experimental observations, all of them indirect.
Essays about mathematical theory and practice illuminate how numbers and equations underpin life, love and the search for meaning.
These courses provide a strong foundation in mathematical theory and solid preparation for advanced math courses.
The seventeenth century saw dramatic advances in mathematical theory and practice.
Waves whose amplitude is large compared with their length cannot be so readily described by mathematical theory, and their form is distorted from a sinusoidal shape.
The name PYE is a phonetic rendering of the symbol Pi, which has no end in mathematical theory, and also sounds like Chinese for "style" or "philosophy".
To be sure, the congruence of mathematical theory and experimental observation helped to pave the way but I like to think it is the visibility of Brownian motion that put real flesh on the idea.
While retaining their own commitment to geometric models rather than adopting the arithmetic schemes of the Mesopotamians, the Greeks nevertheless followed the Mesopotamians' lead in seeking a predictive astronomy based on a combination of mathematical theory and observational parameters.
The continuous time random walk (CTRW) has both an elegant mathematical theory and a successful record at modeling solute transport in the subsurface.
