Essential tensions remain in our understanding of the reasons underlying the striking success achieved in science by applying mathematics. Wigner and many likeminded scientists and philosophers conclude that this success is a miracle, a “wonderful gift which we neither deserve nor understand.” This essay seeks to dissipate that aura of mystery and bring the factors underlying the success of applied mathematics into the fold of scientific rationality.
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Fillion, N. (2016). Demystifying the Applicability of Mathematics. In Frontiers Collection (Vol. Part F917, pp. 135–144). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27495-9_12
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