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2000 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Model and Reality — The Principle of Simplicity within the Empirical Sciences

verfasst von : Wolfgang Eichhorn, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger

Erschienen in: Optimization, Dynamics, and Economic Analysis

Verlag: Physica-Verlag HD

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Albert Einstein’s request to those who create models in physics or even more general in the empirical sciences was: “ Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler! ” The opinion of further famous physicists including Werner Heisenberg was that connections in physics are based on simple principles. These ideas lead us to the following questions, which we want to ask in connection with the natural sciences as well as with other empirical sciences, including economics:

Metadaten
Titel
Model and Reality — The Principle of Simplicity within the Empirical Sciences
verfasst von
Wolfgang Eichhorn
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger
Copyright-Jahr
2000
Verlag
Physica-Verlag HD
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57684-3_32