L' irragionevole efficacia della matematica nelle scienze naturali
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Perché il Numero, forse la nozione più astratta creata dalla mente umana, risulta così efficace nella descrizione della realtà? In questo breve e prezioso saggio Wigner indaga le ragioni profonde, e tuttora misteriose, che rendono possibile la conoscenza della natura attraverso il linguaggio della matematica.
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The Grapes of Math The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics is a brief but classic essay and fascinating epistemological inquiry written in 1960 by the Nobel prize-winning physicist and mathematician Eugene Wigner. In it, Wigner considers one of the most perplexing riddles in modern epistemology Leggi tutto
My Medium post summarizing this classic article: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/t... .
vou resumir: escrito por um religioso
Questo breve discorso verte sull’efficacia della matematica nel predire e descrivere i fenomeni naturali (come dice il titolo d’altronde). La domanda principale che si pone l’autore è se ci sia una qualsiasi ragione dietro a tale efficacia, dato che la matematica sembra essere, per quel che si sa, u Leggi tutto
There is a story about two friends, who were classmates in high school, talking about their jobs. One of them became a statistician and was working on population trends. He showed a reprint to his former classmate, The reprint started, as usual, with the Gaussian distribution and the statistician ex Leggi tutto
What I got more out of this paper than the topic itself was the discussion about the purpose of mathematics. We invented advanced mathematical concepts, not for the sake of finding some ultimate truth, but to demonstrate our ingenuity of using these concepts to bring theories that express supreme fo Leggi tutto
‘The preceding discussion is intended to remind us, first, that it is not at all natural that "laws of nature" exist, much less that man is able to discover them.’
Come già prevedevo, non ne ho capito nulla. Interessante per chi ne capisce ovviamente.
Eugene Wigner raises a question here that never occurred to me before: Why is mathematics so effective in describing and predicting natural phenomena when mathematics is based purely on abstract thought with no necessary reference to anything in the material world? He does not offer any possible rea Leggi tutto
I much preferred Richard Hamming's The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics.
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