Authors: Ilija Barukčić
Modern scientist come close to Einstein, the most prominent physicist of the twentieth century and may be of all time. Still, the question is justified, can there be ever another Einstein? Less well known, though of fundamental importance, are Einstein's contributions to the philosophy of science. Einstein's is well known for his conviction that scientist should trust simplicity. Einstein proclaimed that we can discover the true laws of nature or proof theorems by seeking those with the most simple mathematical formulation. Einstein's faith in the supreme power of mathematical simplicity was strong. Such an approach to scientific investigation is of strategic use, since by time the hypotheses from which scientists starts become ever more abstract and more remote from experience. Especially, under conditions where scientific investigations are moving steadily into domains ever further removed from direct contact with an experiment or observation, the starting point should be as simple as possible. This point of view, whose exact formulation while investi-gating the problem of the division of zero by zero may meet with great difficulties, may justify our trust that the problem of the division of zero by zero is solved.
Comments: 7 Pages.. (C) Ilija Barukcic, Jever, Germany, 2016. PUBLISHED BY:Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 4, 749-761. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jamp.2016.44085
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