The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

A summary

Werner Heisenberg and Eugene Wigner, 1928

I recently started a job in which I, trained as a mathematician, am working with a number of colleagues who were trained as physicists. At lunch, this situation led to a discussion of the connections between the two fields, which in turn led to a discussion of Eugene Wigner’s article “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics…