Talk:Scientific laws named after people
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If Noether's theorem is included, should we include Pythagorean theorem and all the hundreds of theorem's named after people that are already Wikipedia articles? Michael Hardy 01:03, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Noether's theorem is a scientific law whereas Pythagorean theorem is a mathematical one. I'm not very clear with the science vs. mathematics distinction when its comes to laws and theories. For that matter I'm not clear on the distinction between the terms "law", "theory", "theorem", "rule", "principle", "axiom", et. al. Confused Jay
I think it might be more useful if mathematical theorems had a page of their own, if for no other reason than space. Perhaps the cases can be discriminated on something like this basis: the Pythagorean theorem is established by a proof, and is part of an abstract system, plane geometry. The physical laws are established and confirmed by experimental measurements on real things, and they are subject to refinement and possible repudiation. I see that there is some confusion in nomenclature, for instance, Bernoulli's law is sometimes Bernoulli's principle and sometimes Bernoulli's theorem. AJim 02:21, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Apparently this includes info merged from List_of_eponymous_laws [1] --Henrygb 01:45, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I see that the Pythagorean theorem I added to the list does not belong to the category of scientific laws, so I remove it. --Anastasios 17:51, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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- What about the other geometry-related laws? Olin 20:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Linus's law?
i don't realy think i would call this a scientific law. Anyone care to comment? (mind you the whole use of the term law in science is archaic anyway) Plugwash 16:19, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
What about Curie's law? Ross 200805
[edit] Category
If no one objects, I'm turning this into a category. Isopropyl 22:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
You really should, I don't see a reason for it to be an article. Rend 00:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Empirical and theoretical laws
The table lists a mixture of empirical laws and theoretical laws. Shouldn't there be two tables? DFH 21:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Titius-Bode "law"
Why is Titius-Bode included here? It would appear to fail the tests at Physical law. Thoughts? --Ckatzchatspy 00:16, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
