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S. Hawking noted the creative role of methods of simplification in order to achieve true understanding: “Even if we do find a complete set of basic laws, there will still be in the years ahead the intellectually challenging task of developing better approximation methods, so that we can make useful predictions of the probable outcomes in complicated and realistic situations. A complete, consistent, unified theory is only a first step: our goal is a complete understanding of the events around us, and of our own existence.” (Hawking, 1988)
Thank you Lord for you have made all that is
necessary simple, and all that is complete unnecessary.
—Grigory S. Skovoroda
We are paid not for complication
but for simplification!
—Nickolay V. Timofeev-Resovsky
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Andrianov, I.V., Manevitch, L.I., Hazewinkel, M. (2002). How Asymptotic Methods Work. In: Asymptotology. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 551. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9162-1_4
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