Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. First principles thinking is a method of problem-solving that involves breaking down complex ...

The fundamental concepts or assumptions on which a theory, system, or method is based. – Oxford Languages First principle reasoning breaks down complex problems into their most basic, foundational ...

First-principles calculations, rooted in quantum mechanics and executed without recourse to empirical parameters, provide a robust framework for predicting the mechanical and thermodynamic properties ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

The next time I start a college, I’d like to hire Thomas E. Ricks as the provost. Even before Ricks wrote his excellent new volume First Principles, he would have been a strong choice to direct the ...

Quantum-physical fundamentals can be studied particularly well by the interactions between electrons and photons. Excited with laser light, for example, the energy, mass or velocity of the electrons ...

Want to learn the internals of the Linux kernel? Version 6.5-rc5 has about 36 million lines of code in it, so good luck! [Seiya] has a different approach. Go back to the beginning and examine the 0.01 ...

With markets hitting record highs, investors clinging to the old PE ratio risk missing the real story: shifting fundamentals ...

For several years, I have been thinking about the doctrine of severability -- what happens when courts conclude that a part of a law is unconstitutional? I have come to believe that this is ...