Formal Sciences

The bedrock layer — abstract structure, formal system, and necessary inference. Mathematics, logic, computation, and systems theory: the languages in which every other domain is written.

4
fields
26
notes
tetrahedron
solid

Fields

M

Mathematics

12 notes

The science of pure structure — pattern, quantity, and form reasoned from first principles, from arithmetic to category theory.

Abstract AlgebraAlgebraArithmeticCalculusCategory TheoryGeometry+6
C

Computer Science

12 notes

Computation as a way of knowing — information, algorithm, and the limits of what can be mechanically constructed.

Algorithms & Data StructuresCompilersComputer GraphicsCPU DesignDatabasesDistributed Systems+6
L

Logic

2 notes

The architecture of valid inference — proposition, proof, and the formal systems on which all certain knowledge rests.

Predicate LogicPropositional Logic
Y

Systems Theory

1 notes

The meta-discipline — elements, feedback, emergence, and equilibrium, the patterns that recur across every domain at once.

Systems

Synthesis

What the 4 fields of Formal Sciences look like together — read live from the typed substrate. The field pages diagnose one field at a time; this is the cross-field view.

4fields
27notes
3fields modeled
534concepts
347relations
81%lens coverage

Epistemic coverage

Each field × lens cell counts how many of the field's notes have been authored through that episteme. A whole column left dark is a lens the entire domain is blind to.

fieldFormsDeductiveExperimentalAlgorithmicSystematicEngineering
MMathematics121212412127
CComputer Science12111111111111
YSystems Theory1111111
LLogic2······

Field landscape

Fields ranked by how far they are modeled. The bar is each field's maturity mix; the chips are the downstream features its substrate can already power.

How formal sciences connects

The relation types its concepts are wired with — the domain's structural signature.

causes
104
composes
48
generalizes
43
transforms
41
depends-on
32
is-tool-for
23
equilibrates
20
part-of
18
is-a
17
contradicts
1

Most connected concepts

The hubs — concepts the most relations pass through.

Algorithm9Coding8Message8Set7Category6Entropy H(X)6Expression6Functor6Group6Random Variable6

Structural echoes

Notes whose relational shape matches — the same proof-skeleton recurring in different places. An exact histogram match is an isomorphism; a near match, an analogy. The seed of analogical transfer across the domain.

analogous97%Computer Science ↔ Systems Theorycomposestransformscausesequilibrates
analogous93%Computer Science ↔ Mathematicsis-atransformscausesdepends-on
analogous97%composestransformscausesis-tool-for
analogous96%composesequilibrates
analogous95%part-ofcomposestransformscauses
analogous95%transformscausesdepends-onis-tool-for
analogous94%composestransformscausesgeneralizes
analogous93%part-ofcomposescausesdepends-on

Frontier

Where the domain is structurally absent — the most leveraged places to author next.

barren fieldLogic has 2 notes but no typed substrate — author its lenses to bring it into the meta-layer.open →
thin fieldSystems Theory has 1 note; sibling fields in Formal Sciences carry ~7. About 6 more would reach parity.open →+6
thin fieldLogic has 2 notes; sibling fields in Formal Sciences carry ~7. About 5 more would reach parity.open →+5