From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C Van
Fraassen.
p. 40 'Of course the story is apocryphal, that a professional gambler
funded a mathematician to analyze horse-racing, and was thoroughly
unhappy with the report that began "Let each horse be a perfect sphere,
rolling along a Euclidean straight line ...". But is that so far from
real examples of mathematical modeling?'
Evgenii
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