The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

by Eugene Paul Wigner · 1959

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"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is the title of an article published in 1960 by the physicist Eugene Wigner. In the paper, Wigner observed that the mathematical structure of a physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to empirical predictions.

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