The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By Howard Barnum. 2012
188 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Social Psychology
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In Astronomy and Astrophysics
In Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Bernhard Schölkopf
- Luigi Gresele
- Alexander Neitz
- Giambattista Parascandolo
- Antonio Orvieto
- Dominik Janzing
- Kun Zhang
- Jan Peters
In Social Psychology
Citations in the corpus
- Learning explanations that are hard to vary (2020, methodology): “An intuitive description of this principle was propos by physicist David Deutsch: “good explanations are hard to vary” [Deutsch, 2011].”
- Explanations in the wild. (2021, unknown): “Explanations are central to the human experience, from serving as answers to children’s ‘Why?’ questions (Legare, 2012; Mills et al., 2019), to motivating scientific theories (Deutsch, 2011; Gopnik, 2000).”
- A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, unknown): “In almost all cases the predicted breakup initiation times from equation (5) lie within a maximum deviation of 20% from the corresponding ones of the simulations.”