EPISODE · May 5, 2021 · 13 MIN
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
from The Art of Mathematics · host Carol Jacoby
Saleem Watson discusses the mysterious way math predicts the natural world. Much of math is invented, and yet there are many examples of cases in which purely abstract math, developed with no reference to the natural world, later is found to make accurate and useful models and predictions of the physical world.
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