The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

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"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is an essay written by physicist Eugene Wigner, published in 1960. In this essay, Wigner discusses the seemingly miraculous ability of mathematics to describe and predict phenomena in the natural world, suggesting that the success of mathematics in explaining and modeling physical theories is surprising and profound.

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