“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

Posted: 2/4/2011 12:00:00 AM Reads: 56 Submitted By:7anthony Category: Mysterious Phenomena Source: s8int.com

Most of what will be said on these questions will not be new, it has probably occurred to most scientists in one form or another. My principal aim is to illuminate it from several sides. The first point is that the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it.

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