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On Foundations of Seismology: Bringing Idealizations Down to Earth

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Full Title

On Foundations of Seismology: Bringing Idealizations Down to Earth

Author(s)

James Robert Brown, Michael A Slawinski

Edition
ISBN

9789813207028, 9789814329491, 9789814329507

Publisher

World Scientific

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational and conceptual issues in seismology. Their aim is to present mathematical, physical and philosophical topics in a clear and concise manner. They provide an extensive philosophical discussion of the methods of science and show how seismology fits in. They explain with care and precision the basic structure of seismology, which is built on classical continuum mechanics. Not only do they explain how various models work in seismology, they also include an extensive discussion of the nature of models and idealizations.