Why the “Unreasonable Effectiveness” of Mathematics? | Episode 2203 | Closer To Truth

Why do abstract mathematical equations produce exquisitely accurate descriptions of the world? The physicist Eugene Wigner called math’s usefulness “uncanny”—and he entitled his famous essay, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".

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