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The title of this post seems to be a reference to the famous paper of Wigner titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences." I
by drbaskin 16y ago
The title of this post seems to be a reference to the famous paper of Wigner titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences." It is a very readable paper and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...
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