The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959

1960/02/01 by Eugene P. Wigner, E. P. Wigner · 1 voice · 20 citations
Mathematics · #History and Theory of Mathematics

paper · doi:10.1002/cpa.3160130102

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