The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Article
Formal Antecedent
Foundations and Logic
Citation
Wigner, Eugene P.. (1960). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 13(1). pp. 1–14.
Why this reference is included
Wigner’s 1960 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, is one of the program’s working technical references. Cited across Book IV (Categorical Microcosm), Part 8, Chapter Laws as Structure; Book IV (Categorical Microcosm), Part 8, Chapter The Self-Describing Universe — the central framing is “The effectiveness problem: Why is mathematics so unreasonably effective in describing physics ?”.
Cited in
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Book IV — Categorical Microcosm Part 8Chapter Laws as Structure
The effectiveness problem: Why is mathematics so unreasonably effective in describing physics ?
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Book IV — Categorical Microcosm Part 8Chapter The Self-Describing Universe
Wigner's ``unreasonable effectiveness'' is trivially explained: the universe speaks mathematics because it is mathematics