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  2. How to Solve It - Wikipedia

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    The skill at choosing an appropriate strategy is best learned by solving many problems. You will find choosing a strategy increasingly easy. A partial list of strategies is included: Guess and check [9] Make an orderly list [10] Eliminate possibilities [11] Use symmetry [12] Consider special cases [13] Use direct reasoning; Solve an equation ...

  3. Perturbation theory - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and applied mathematics, perturbation theory comprises methods for finding an approximate solution to a problem, by starting from the exact solution of a related, simpler problem. [1] [2] A critical feature of the technique is a middle step that breaks the problem into "solvable" and "perturbative" parts. [3]

  4. Physics envy - Wikipedia

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    This framework holds that a firm must evaluate the environment in order to set up its structure that will implement strategies. [10] Chandler also maintained that there is close connection "between mathematics, physics, and engineering graduates and the systemizing of the business strategy paradigm". [10]

  5. Mathematics of general relativity - Wikipedia

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    For example, one strategy is to start with an ansatz (or an educated guess) of the final metric, and refine it until it is specific enough to support a coordinate system but still general enough to yield a set of simultaneous differential equations with unknowns that can be solved for.

  6. Mathematical proof - Wikipedia

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    Since the expression on the left is an integer multiple of 2, the right expression is by definition divisible by 2. That is, a 2 is even, which implies that a must also be even, as seen in the proposition above (in #Proof by contraposition). So we can write a = 2c, where c is also an integer.

  7. Relationship between mathematics and physics - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between mathematics and physics has been a subject of study of philosophers, mathematicians and physicists since antiquity, and more recently also by historians and educators. [2] Generally considered a relationship of great intimacy, [ 3 ] mathematics has been described as "an essential tool for physics" [ 4 ] and physics has ...

  8. Mathematical physics - Wikipedia

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    An example of mathematical physics: solutions of Schrödinger's equation for quantum harmonic oscillators (left) with their amplitudes (right).. Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics.

  9. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    There is no general consensus about the definition of mathematics or its epistemological status—that is, its place inside knowledge. A great many professional mathematicians take no interest in a definition of mathematics, or consider it undefinable. There is not even consensus on whether mathematics is an art or a science.