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The description of the relationship between mathematics and physics is too brief to be based solely on content. Rather, it requires the meta-descriptions of both subjects, i.e. the discussion of what constitutes the individual sciences and how they come to their conclusions. Such meta-descriptions are also of high didactic relevance, since without them a genuine understanding of the nature of the disciplines cannot be achieved.
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Nguyen, V.B., Kraus, S.F. (2020). The Nature of Science. In: Kraus, S., Krause, E. (eds) Comparison of Mathematics and Physics Education I . MINTUS – Beiträge zur mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bildung. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29880-7_7
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