The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is a 1960 article written by the physicist Eugene Wigner, published in Communication in Pure and Applied Mathematics. In it, Wigner observes that a theoretical physics's mathematical structure often points the way to further advances in that theory and to empirical predictions. Mathematical theories often have predictive power in describing nature.
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1960 article by Eugene Wigner
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2003-01-19T23:18:08Z
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2024-08-27T13:10:06Z
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