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'''''"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"''''' is the title of an article published in 1960 by [[Physics|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]]''

== External links == 

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences] @ Wikipedia

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