Zipf's law, and the family of associated power laws, which govern the frequency distribution of words in natural language, and many other things, are well known in the information sciences as the foundations of bibliometrics. An intriguing new study by a group of physicists from Oxford, Paris, and Portsmouth, reported in a paper in the… Continue reading Zipf’s Law and the mathematics of the physical world
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Invented and discovered: mathematics in Popper’s World 3
I have always had an interest in mathematics. This is despite, or perhaps because of, never being very good at the subject at school, and avoiding it to the maximum extent compatible with getting a science degree at university. Not that I have any fondness for what is called 'recreational mathematics', which has always seemed… Continue reading Invented and discovered: mathematics in Popper’s World 3
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