What Is Mathematics? Expectations" by Charles Dickens. According to Constance Reid, Courant finalized the title after a conversation with Thomas Mann. What Is Mathematics? What Is Mathematics? is a mathematics book written by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, published in England by Oxford University Press. It is an introduction to mathematics, intended both for the mathematics student and for the general public. First published in 1941, it discusses number theory, geometry, topology and calculus. A second edition was published in 1996 with an additional chapter on recent progress in mathematics, written by Ian Stewart. The book was based on Courant's course material. Although
Scientific law the conditions where they apply. Many laws take mathematical forms, and thus can be stated as an equation; for example, the law of conservation of energy can be written as formula_1, where E is the total amount of energy in the universe. Similarly, the first law of thermodynamics can be written as formula_2. The term "scientific law" is traditionally associated with the natural sciences, though the social sciences also contain laws. An example of a scientific law in social sciences is Zipf's law. Like theories and hypotheses, laws make predictions (specifically, they predict that new observations will conform to the