L' irragionevole efficacia della matematica nelle scienze naturali

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

This brief essay asks why math proves so effective for describing / codifying physical laws, and whether our physical theories -- built on (phenomenally successful) mathematics -- offer the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. There’s a popular story in which a drunk man is found on hi Leggi tutto

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. The question popped into my mind while trolling a New Atheist on his Wordpress blog. What is the relation between mathematics

I was kinda disappointed. He didn’t really make a clear point but the examples were chill.

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

Fascinating but fairly densely written. I really couldn’t explain this in any depth to someone - will need to track down a summary for people of normal intelligence. “The first point is that the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and th Leggi tutto

"(...) it is not at all natural that 'laws of nature' exist, much less that man is able to discover them." "(...) the concepts of mathematics are not chosen for their conceptual simplicity - even sequences of pairs of numbers are far from being the simplest concepts - but for their amenability to cle Leggi tutto