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Lessons from Einstein's 1915 discovery of general relativity
Lee Smolin
There is a myth that Einstein's discovery of general relativity was due to his following beautiful mathematics to discover new insights about nature. I argue that this is an incorr…
physics.hist-ph2015★ 1 cited
A naturalist account of the limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics
Lee Smolin
The aim of this essay is to propose a conception of mathematics that is fully consonant with naturalism. By that I mean the hypothesis that everything that exists is part of the na…