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Mathematics

Overview

I'm trying to review the mathematics necessary to understand the models of climate change, and various other physics. Although my focus is "applied", my fascination lies more towards the "pure".

Pure mathematics is the art of the provable, but applied mathematics is the description of what happens. These heuristics illustrate the gulf between these realms. The domain of a theorem is bounded by extremes, even if unlikely. Heuristics are descriptions of what is probable, not the full range of what is possible.

— John P. Boyd, "The Devil's Invention: Asymptotic, Superasymptotic and Hyperasymptotic Series" §3

Last Updated 2023-07-10 Mon 08:32.