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/Subject (Mathematical chemistry is often thought to be a 20th-century subdiscipline of chemistry, but in this paper we discuss several early chemical ideas and some landmarks of chemistry as instances of the mathematical way of thinking; many of them before 1900. By the mathematical way of thinking, we follow Weyls description of it in terms of functional thinking, i.e. setting up variables, symbolizing them, and seeking for functions relating them. The cas-es we discuss are Platos triangles, Geoffroys affinity table, Lavoisiers classification of substances and their relationships, Mendeleevs periodic table, Cayleys enumeration of alkanes, Sylvesters association of algebra and chemistry, and Wieners relationship between molecular structure and boiling points. These examples show that mathematical chemistry has much more than a century of history.)
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Mathematical Thinking in Chemistry
Guillermo Restrepo, Jose L. Villaveces
Mathematical chemistry is often thought to be a 20th-century subdiscipline of chemistry, but in this paper we discuss several early chemical ideas and some landmarks of chemistry as instances of the mathematical way of thinking; many of them before 1900. By the mathematical way of thinking, we follow Weyl’s description of it in terms of functional thinking, i.e. setting up variables, symbolizing them, and seeking for functions relating them. The cas-es we discuss are Plato’s triangles, Geoffroy’s affinity table, Lavoisier’s classification of substances and their relationships, Mendeleev’s periodic table, Cayley’s enumeration of alkanes, Sylvester’s association of algebra and chemistry, and Wiener’s relationship between molecular structure and boiling points. These examples show that mathematical chemistry has much more than a century of history.
Chemistry and Mathematics
Philosophy of Chemistry
History of Chemistry
mathematical chemistry
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functional thinking
chemical graphs
QSAR
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