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*Architecture is maximizing the [[invariance]]s and minimizing the discontinuities. | *Architecture is maximizing the [[invariance]]s and minimizing the discontinuities. | ||
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Starting on Chapter 5<ref> | Starting on Chapter 5<ref extends=JD-Architecture>Chapter 5, Page 145~184</ref> of this book: Naming and Addressing, the notion of naming, and its history has been explicitly described in the chapter. On Chapter 8, the notion of Name and Addressing is formally defined and related to logic and topology again. | ||
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Without a unifying theory to simplify knowledge, the amount of information was eventually overwhelming. But theory is much more than just a mnemonic. A theory, even a partial one, leads to deeper understanding of the phenomena being studied and to further insights. Proposals of a unifying theory (even if unsuccessful) raise questions relating disparate phenomena that would not otherwise arise. When there is a theoretical framework, results can be derived that were far from obvious before. Theory not only provides a simpler, more logical explanation, but it also has a tendency to simplify individual techniques (making them easier to understand and apply). Many techniques coalesce to become degenerate cases of a more general method. To see this, one only need read accounts of electricity and magnetism before Maxwell, chemistry before the periodic chart, or geology before plate tectonics. | Without a unifying theory to simplify knowledge, the amount of information was eventually overwhelming. But theory is much more than just a mnemonic. A theory, even a partial one, leads to deeper understanding of the phenomena being studied and to further insights. Proposals of a unifying theory (even if unsuccessful) raise questions relating disparate phenomena that would not otherwise arise. When there is a theoretical framework, results can be derived that were far from obvious before. Theory not only provides a simpler, more logical explanation, but it also has a tendency to simplify individual techniques (making them easier to understand and apply). Many techniques coalesce to become degenerate cases of a more general method. To see this, one only need read accounts of electricity and magnetism before Maxwell, chemistry before the periodic chart, or geology before plate tectonics. | ||
|sign=[[John Day]] <ref> | |sign=[[John Day]] <ref extends=JD-Architecture>Page 369-370</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 01:16, 25 February 2023
Day, John (2008). Patterns in Network Architecture - a return to fundamentals. local page: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780132252423.
Architects' Motto
*Architecture is doing the algebra, before doing the arithmetic.
- A good (network) architect suffers from the topologist’s vision defect. He can’t tell a coffee cup from a doughnut.
- Architecture is maximizing the invariances and minimizing the discontinuities.
Naming and Addressing
Starting on Chapter 5Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many of this book: Naming and Addressing, the notion of naming, and its history has been explicitly described in the chapter. On Chapter 8, the notion of Name and Addressing is formally defined and related to logic and topology again.
China had no Euclid
There was essentially no tradition of theory in Chinese science, and certainly not axiomatic theory, of systematizing the results. Needham points out that the body of knowledge represented by Chinese science was more a set of individual techniques than an organized corpus of knowledge.
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Without a unifying theory to simplify knowledge, the amount of information was eventually overwhelming. But theory is much more than just a mnemonic. A theory, even a partial one, leads to deeper understanding of the phenomena being studied and to further insights. Proposals of a unifying theory (even if unsuccessful) raise questions relating disparate phenomena that would not otherwise arise. When there is a theoretical framework, results can be derived that were far from obvious before. Theory not only provides a simpler, more logical explanation, but it also has a tendency to simplify individual techniques (making them easier to understand and apply). Many techniques coalesce to become degenerate cases of a more general method. To see this, one only need read accounts of electricity and magnetism before Maxwell, chemistry before the periodic chart, or geology before plate tectonics.
— John Day Cite error: Invalid<ref>tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
References
- ↑ Day, John (2008). Patterns in Network Architecture - a return to fundamentals. local page: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780132252423. , Chapter 1, Page 1
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