In 1959, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner took a run ... entitled essay, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,” Wigner argued that the scientific ...

In Wigner's view, mathematics is a “wonderful gift that we neither understand nor deserve.” In a famous essay, Eugene Wigner once speculated about the “unreasonable effectiveness of ...

THEY call it the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics”. Physicist Eugene Wigner coined the phrase ... can describe and predict all manner of natural phenomena with astonishing clarity ...