There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. . . . Not only man puts things in a row, but things be-long in a row.
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. . . . Not only man puts things in a row, but things be-long in a row.
Whence comes the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics [1]? How is it that a pure creation of our mind has any relationship to the external world, let alone a relationship that is accurate to ten decimal places?
[1] Eugene Wigner, “The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences,” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13, no. 1 (1960): 1-14, https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf.
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