`Nature is the realisation of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas': Einstein and the canon of mathematical simplicity
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instance of: scholarly article
title: `Nature is the realisation of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas': Einstein and the canon of mathematical simplicity
zbMATH Open document ID: 1222.01032
DOI: 10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00035-0
author: John D. Norton
published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
publication date: 2011-10-14T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83-03
zbMATH DE Number: 5958196
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein
zbMATH Keywords: simplicity
zbMATH Keywords: Platonism
zbMATH Keywords: relativity
zbMATH Keywords: gravitation
zbMATH Keywords: mathematics
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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