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Mathematics is at the heart of modern science but we shouldn’t forget other ways to reason, says author and researcher Roland Ennos
By Roland Ennos
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“Science is written in the language of mathematics,” proclaimed Galileo in 1623. And over the past few centuries science has become ever more mathematical. Nowadays, mathematics seems to hold total hegemony, particularly in the fields of quantum physics and relativity – the teaching of modern physics seems to involve deriving an…
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