Timeline for Why have mathematicians used differential equations to model nature instead of difference equations
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 20:38 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Sep 30, 2014 at 14:22 | comment | added | Gottfried William | Agreed. Indeed this is quite important. For presence or absence of symmetries in a physical system is model significant: each symmetry or its absence has physical meaning. We do not want symmetries to exist or be absent just because of metaphysical preferences about notational syntax, since this would correspond to a different physical system without a physical reason for the difference. | |
| Sep 30, 2014 at 13:52 | history | answered | André Henriques | CC BY-SA 3.0 |