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   The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is a 1960 article written by the physicist Eugene Wigner, published in Communication in Pure and Applied Mathematics.

   • Author: Eugene P. Wigner

   • Publish Year: 1960

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   The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Eugene Wigner1 “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely

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   Eugene Wigner. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

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5. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Biographies › WignerEugene Paul Wigner - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

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   Jan 1, 1995 · Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles. View four larger pictures. Biography. The Hungarian version of Eugene Paul Wigner's name was Jenó Pál Wigner.

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   Sep 1, 2011 · Wigner's central thesis was that mathematical concepts are often defined and developed in one context and then, perhaps much later, turn out to have a completely unanticipated but highly effective application in another context.

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7. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullFull article: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics ...

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   Nov 12, 2013 · It was put in a particularly evocative form by the physicist Eugene Wigner as the title of a lecture in 1959 in New York: ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences’.

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   Who was Eugene Paul Wigner?

   • Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles. The Hungarian version of Eugene Paul Wigner's name was Jenó Pál Wigner.

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   What is Wigner's contribution to physics?

   • Wigner's 1939 paper on representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group [ Ann. of Math. (2) 40 (1939), 149 - 204] is one of the most fundamental papers in physics. He was appointed to the Thomas D Jones Chair of Mathematical Physics at Princeton in 1938. He brought his parents to the United States in 1939.

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   What is Wigner's central thesis?

   • Wigner’s central thesis was that mathematical concepts are often defined and developed in one context and then, perhaps much later, turn out to have a completely unanticipated but highly effective application in another context.

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   Why was Wigner's Unreasonable Effectiveness unsatisfactory?

   • Mathematician and Turing Award laureate Richard Hamming reflected on and extended Wigner's Unreasonable Effectiveness in 1980, discussing four "partial explanations" for it, and concluding that they were unsatisfactory. They were: 1. Humans see what they look for. The belief that science is experimentally grounded is only partially true.

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9. link.springer.com › content › pdfWigner’s “Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”, Revisited

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   Fifty years ago, Eugene Wigner published a captivating essay with a partly humor-ous title, “The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences”, covering up actually some of the most mystifying questions in the philosophy of science [1].