Notes

Chapter 10: Processes of Perception and Analysis

Section 11: Traditional Mathematics and Mathematical Formulas


Practical empirical mathematics

In looking for formulas to describe behavior seen in this book I have in practice typically taken associated sequences of numbers and then tested whether obvious regularities are revealed by combinations of such operations as: computing successive differences (see note below), computing running totals, looking for repeated blocks, picking out running maxima, picking out numbers with particular modular residues, and looking at positions of particular values, and at the forms of the digit sequences of these positions.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]