Ha! Seeing the headline, I was going to say that this is basically the intro to Street Fighting Mathematics. Reading it, I thought I was just having deja vu with how similar the treatment was. Fun book.
I always think of dimensional reduction when I see these headlines, which is sadly very unrelated.
> I always think of dimensional reduction when I see these headlines, which is sadly very unrelated.
Actually, the two are related. The Buckingham pi theorem of dimensional analysis guarantees the reduction of the number of variables ("dimension" in a different sense) in many instances.
I always think of dimensional reduction when I see these headlines, which is sadly very unrelated.