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The unity of mathematics has its power to compactify experiences in a form capable of being transferred and modified or adapted to new mathematical situations. Yet, we believe that the phrase "Unity of Mathematics" expresses a dream, an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek , Philip J. Davis

Music and dance have always co-existed as pillars of human activities, contributing immensely to the cultural, social, and entertainment functions in virtually all societies. Notwithstanding the gradual systematization of music and dance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shuang Wu , Zhenguang Li , Shijian Lu , Li Cheng

Discrete mathematics is the foundation of computer science. It focuses on concepts and reasoning methods that are studied using math notations. It has long been argued that discrete math is better taught with programming, which takes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yanhong A. Liu , Matthew Castelllana

In recent years, computing has become an important part of the way we teach and learn physics. Teachers, both at high school and college levels, now use computational activities in many of their courses. Physics departments are offering…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-08-31 Hannah C. Sabo , Tor Ole B. Odden , Marcos D. Caballero

The philosophical foundations of statistics involve issues in theoretical statistics, such as goals and methods to meet these goals, and interpretation of the meaning of inference using statistics. They are related to the philosophy of…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2026-03-05 Inge G. Helland , Nils Lid Hjort , Gunnar Taraldsen

I review some recent work on applications of category theory to questions concerning theoretical structure and theoretical equivalence of classical field theories, including Newtonian gravitation, general relativity, and Yang-Mills…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 James Owen Weatherall

Physics makes powerful use of mathematics, yet the way this use is made is often poorly understood. Professionals closely integrate their mathematical symbology with physical meaning, resulting in a powerful and productive structure. But…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-02-03 Edward F. Redish , Ayush Gupta

In mathematical applications, category theory remains a contentious issue, with enthusiastic fans and a skeptical majority. In a muted form this split applies to the authors of this note. When we learned that the only mathematically sound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich

In this short paper I consider relation between measurements, numbers and p-adic mathematical physics. p-Adic numbers are not result of measurements, but nevertheless they play significant role in description of some systems and phenomena.…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Branko Dragovich

Data science offers a powerful tool to understand objects in multiple sciences. In this paper we utilize concept of data science, most notably topological data analysis, to extend our understanding of knot theory. This approach provides a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Pawel Dlotko , Davide Gurnari , Radmila Sazdanovic

Much like most of cognition research, music cognition is an interdisciplinary field, which attempts to apply methods of cognitive science (neurological, computational and experimental) to understand the perception and process of composition…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Abhimanyu Sethia , Aayush

Schanuel has pointed out that there are mathematically interesting categories whose relationship to the ring of integers is analogous to the relationship between the category of finite sets and the semi-ring of non-negative integers. Such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Propp

A primary goal of physics is to create mathematical models that allow both predictions and explanations of physical phenomena. We weave maths extensively into our physics instruction beginning in high school, and the level and complexity of…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-04-12 Edward F. Redish

Motivated by a recent series of diametrically opposed articles on the relative value of statistical methods for the analysis of path diagrams in the social sciences, we discuss from a primarily theoretical perspective selected fundamental…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-13 R. Dennis Cook , Liliana Forzani

In this paper we present $2$-category theory from the perspective of Gray-categories using the graphical calculus of separated surface diagrams. As an extended example we consider cones and limits of $2$-functors. Then we use the canonical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Edward Morehouse

We discuss a formal system of mathematics. We use it to construct the natural numbers.

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Christoph Thiele

Racks and quandles are rich algebraic structures that are strong enough to classify knots. Here we develop several fundamental categorical aspects of the theories of racks and quandles and their relation to the theory of permutations. In…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Markus Szymik

In this report it is approched the Contest dynamics as mathematical theory, therefore applicable to all contest sports. Starting with the physical definition of Athlete and Couple of Athlete systems and after singling out the interaction…

General Physics · Physics 2008-06-26 Attilio Sacripanti

A certain amount of category theory is developed in an arbitrary finitely complete category with a factorization system on it, playing the role of the comprehensive factorization system on Cat. Those aspects related to the concepts of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Claudio Pisani

In this pedagogical text aimed at those wanting to start thinking about or brush up on probabilistic inference, I review the rules by which probability distribution functions can (and cannot) be combined. I connect these rules to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-05-22 David W. Hogg