MATHEMATIZATION OF NATURE

Sudipto Ghosh^1*, Varun Agrawal², Vasudeva Rao² and Manoranjan Sinha³

¹Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

²Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata, India

³Department of Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

ABSTRACT

Since ages humanity has been attempting to describe their observations of natural phenomena by a finite number of mathematical and logical rules. Although successful in describing small subsets of physical observations, it has been unsuccessful in coming up with theory of everything. In the present paper challenges faced in unified mathematical description of nature has been summed up. Authors feel that paradigm shift is necessary in this connection and draw inspiration from the Bhagavata Shankhya description of nature, many aspects of which have been described in details by the Vaiśeṣika of Kanada. In past, many of the elements of modern science are common with Vedic tradition of knowledge and thus it would be a wise decision to have a team effort in understanding the Vaiśeṣika and adopt many of its elements in the modern scientific theory. Authors are inspired by the view of Schrodinger who suggested a blood transfusion of eastern thoughts in the western science.

^*Speaker: Sudipto Ghosh