Book/Science and Method

Poincare, Henri; Maitland, Francis (2007). Combinatorial Physics. local page: New York : Cosimo Classics, ©. ISBN 9781602064485. 

Preface

(last paragraph) To be always right is no possible in philosophy; but Poincare's opinions, right or wrong, are always the expression of a powerful and original mind with a quite unrivaled scientific equipment; a masterly style, great wit, and a profound devotion to the advancement of knowledge. Through these merits, hs books supply, better than any others known to me, the growing need for a generally intelligible account of the philosophic outcome of modern science.

— Bertrand Russell

Introduction

The scientific method consists in observation and experiment. If the scientist had an unfinity of time at this disposal, it would be sufficient to say to him, "Look , and look carefully." But, since he has not time to look at everything, and above all to look carefully, and since it is better not to look at all than to look carelessly, he is forced to make a selection.

I. The Scientist and Science

The Selection of Facts

Talking to Yuan Xun on the subject matter of collision detection, I realized that the mechanism of collision detection is relevant to the notion of selecting relevant content or paging of content. The paging structure of content can be thought of as a Bounding volume hierarchy.

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Authored by:Henri Poincare