• DOI:10.2307/421056
Corpus ID: 6658624

Machines, logic and quantum physics

@article{Deutsch2000MachinesLA,
  title={Machines, logic and quantum physics},
  author={D. Deutsch and A. Ekert and Rossella Lupacchini},
  journal={Bull. Symb. Log.},
  year={2000},
  volume={6},
  pages={265-283}
}

• D. Deutsch, A. Ekert, Rossella Lupacchini
• Published 2000
• Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics
• Bull. Symb. Log.

§1. Mathematics and the physical world. Genuine scientific knowledge cannot be certain, nor can it be justified a priori. Instead, it must be conjectured, and then tested by experiment, and this requires it to be expressed in a language appropriate for making precise, empirically testable predictions. That language is mathematics. This in turn constitutes a statement about what the physical world must be like if science, thus conceived, is to be possible. As Galileo put it, “the universe is… Expand

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