Elements of Mathematical Sedimentary Geology: The GeoChron Model.

Jean-Laurent Mallet. ( 2014 )
in: Proc. 34th Gocad Meeting, Nancy

Abstract

Contrarily to what a quick reading may suggest, this book (Mallet, 2014) is not about mathematics. It is about geology, or more precisely about “mathematical geology”, also known as “numerical geology” or “geomodeling”. The Earth is part of the physical realm; as in mathematical physics the goal of this book is not to make advances in mathematics but to use them to attempt to explain the laws of Nature as Galileo suggested in is famous opus “Il Saggiatore”. Since Pythagoras, Archimedes, Kepler and Galileo, we know that the physical realm is ruled by mathematical equations and, since Newton, we know that most of these equations are differential equations: therefore, one should not be surprised to find in this book plenty of partial differential equations aimed at describing a unified mathematical framework for modeling the geometry and the properties of geological structures.

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@inproceedings{MalletGM2014,
 abstract = { Contrarily to what a quick reading may suggest, this book (Mallet, 2014) is not about mathematics. It is about geology, or more precisely about “mathematical geology”, also known as “numerical geology” or “geomodeling”. The Earth is part of the physical realm; as in mathematical physics the goal of this book is not to make advances in mathematics but to use them to attempt to explain the laws of Nature as Galileo suggested in is famous opus “Il Saggiatore”. Since Pythagoras, Archimedes, Kepler and Galileo, we know that the physical realm is ruled by mathematical equations and, since Newton, we know that most of these equations are differential equations: therefore, one should not be surprised to find in this book plenty of partial differential equations aimed at describing a unified mathematical framework for modeling the geometry and the properties of geological structures. },
 author = { Mallet, Jean-Laurent },
 booktitle = { Proc. 34th Gocad Meeting, Nancy },
 title = { Elements of Mathematical Sedimentary Geology: The GeoChron Model. },
 year = { 2014 }
}