Thread
:
Why is math so adept at describing the world?
View Single Post
Reply
Posted 2015-03-02, 10:37 AM in reply to
Chruser
's post starting
"That reminds me of Max Tegmark's..."
I was actually working on a problem yesterday that reminded me of your comment, GLG. In Statistical Mechanics you often encounter problems where energy surfaces in phase space are higher dimensional hyperspheres. Doing mathematics on this surface requires some knowledge of the volume and surface area elements of these hyperspheres. The mathematics of such higher dimensional geometries was worked out well before the modern formulation of Statistical Mechanics, or even of Hamiltonian mechanics (which is a reformulation of Newtonian mechanics upon which Statistical Mechanics depends).
Profile
PM
WWW
Search
Demosthenes