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Philosophy of science

puzzle of why mathematics developed for its own sake so often fits and predicts physical phenomena.

In philosophy of science, unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics refers to puzzle of why mathematics developed for its own sake so often fits and predicts physical phenomena. This meaning comes from Wigner (1960) in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics.[1]

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Wigner, E. P. (1960). The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 13(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.3160130102

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