Lewin regarded the person and the environment as part or regions of the same psychological field. In field theory of personality, Lewin defined a field as the totality of coexisting facts which are conceived of as mutually interdependent.
Behavior thus becomes a function the person and the environment or in Lewin’s well known formula, B=F(P,E). Beginning with this firs single division of the field into the two regions of person and environment, Lewin attempted to word out a framework suitable for the scientific study of human behavior in general and the predication of its specific expressions. He preferred to use mathematics, the traditional language of science, rather that verbal descriptions, in representing the person environment field and the influences acting on it. He considered two general influences, which he called topological or structural and dynamic.
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