Physical addition

Ingvar Johansson

pp. 277-288

in: Roberto Poli, Peter Simons (eds), Formal ontology, Berlin, Springer, 1996

Abstract

Modern physics is unthinkable without mathematics. Its conceptual apparatus is permeated by numbers. In ancient and medieval times it was a problem whether mathematics could be useful in fundamental physics. Today we face the opposite problem. Are there any interesting non-mathematical concepts in physics?