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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960)

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Re: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960)

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sixtyj wrote: post #2

Nine pages without subheadlines, long lines of text with heavy paragraphs. Could someone be so kind and make tldr; version? Please.

Math good, strangely effective, much science, reality deeply weird, needs more stochastic approximation of real valued functions.

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Re: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960)

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sixtyj wrote: post #2

Nine pages without subheadlines, long lines of text with heavy paragraphs. Could someone be so kind and make tldr; version? Please.

It's that it's surprising physical behavior fits with mathematical equations so well.

My guess is it's because the universe is maths in some sense.

Re: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960)

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tim333 wrote: post #6
sixtyj wrote: post #2

Nine pages without subheadlines, long lines of text with heavy paragraphs. Could someone be so kind and make tldr; version? Please.

It's that it's surprising physical behavior fits with mathematical equations so well. My guess is it's because the universe is maths in some sense.

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