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Hi all,
I was just reading Wigner's 1960 paper 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'.
For all of you familiar with his reasoning who understand mathematics better than I do:
Do you think mathematics will continue to be as successful as it has been so far? What are some good examples of natural phenonema that we don't yet have an explanation for so far? Do you believe that mathematical explanations do ultimately exists for everything that happens in our cosmos and it's just a question of whether we're smart enough to figure it out? Or is it conceivable that there are things that math is of no use in trying to understand?
Could it be that math becomes just reasonably effective and not unreasonable anymore?
Thanks!
I was just reading Wigner's 1960 paper 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'.
For all of you familiar with his reasoning who understand mathematics better than I do:
Do you think mathematics will continue to be as successful as it has been so far? What are some good examples of natural phenonema that we don't yet have an explanation for so far? Do you believe that mathematical explanations do ultimately exists for everything that happens in our cosmos and it's just a question of whether we're smart enough to figure it out? Or is it conceivable that there are things that math is of no use in trying to understand?
Could it be that math becomes just reasonably effective and not unreasonable anymore?
Thanks!