The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is the title of an article published in 1960 by physicist and mathematician Eugene Wigner.
Description
Wigner wrote the paper in his later life, when he had become more philosophical.
In the paper, Wigner observes that the mathematical structure of a physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to empirical predictions.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is Wigner's best-known work outside of technical mathematics and physics.
See also
- Cosmology
- Eugene Wigner
- Foundations of mathematics
- Mark Steiner
- Mathematical universe hypothesis
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of science
- Physics
- Quasi-empiricism in mathematics
- Relationship between mathematics and physics
- Scientific structuralism
- Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics
- Where Mathematics Comes From
