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The unity of physical theory and its mathematical formalism

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The relation between the physical theory and its mathematical formalism is shown.

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Kharkov Physicotechnical Institute, Kharkov. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 1594–1600, December, 1997.

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Akhiezer, A.I. The unity of physical theory and its mathematical formalism. Ukr Math J 49, 1791–1797 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02513058

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