January 12, 2011 9:34 World Scientific Book - 9in x 6in mathematics
314 MATHEMATICS AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES
conceptual renormalization, 145
Connes, 93, 109
construction
of objectivity, 162
the concept of, 12
contingent finality, 137, 212
continuity, topological, 96
continuous line, 68
continuum, 1, 80
continuum hypothesis, 15
correlation length, 62, 242
CPT theorem, 157
critical phenomena, 228
critical system, 142
critical theories, 193
critical transition, 229
criticality, 97
cybernetics, 125
Darwinian evolutionary theory, 121
decidability, 85
definition of mathematics, 64
degeneracy, 213
functional, 213
systemic, 213
determination
formal, 184
objective, 184
determination vs cause, 183
determinations involved in living
phenomena, 169
determinism, 123
digital simulation vs mathematical
modeling, 202
dimension as a topological invariant,
129
dimensional analysis, 129
discrete, definition of, 259
discrete logistic equation, 207
dualism, 173
dynamic system, 87
dynamical sy stem, 121
non-linear, 110
theories of, 112
emergence of complex structures, 231
energy, 133
entropy, 249
negative, 249
EPR argument, 87, 90, 108
equivalence of different formalizations
of computability, 128
equivalence relation, 159, 160
Euclid, 81, 93
Euclid’s axiomatics, 43
evolution of a calculus in physical
terms, 205
evolutionary explanation, 122
extended criticality, 120, 133, 235,
253, 293
Fermat’s last theorem, 77
Fibonacci sequence, 126
finalism, 248
in physics, 250
finite/infinite, 75, 95
flux
of energy, 217
of information, 217
force, 54
formal, 65
formalism, 2, 4, 7, 32, 98
formal incompleteness of, 73
foundation, 8, 36, 57
foundational analysis, aim of, 284
foundations, 21
of mathematics, 5, 17, 42, 56, 69,
81, 197
of physics, 5
Frege, 2, 21, 70
friction with the world, 45
functionalism, 105
functionalist account of cognition, 104
functor, 34
Galileo, 150
gauge theories, 54
Gauss, 69, 77
Gauss’s proof, 78
gene, 127
genesis, 21
geodesic, 137, 234