Mario Livio

Is God a Mathematician?

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Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about «the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics» in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that — mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true. Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? If, as Einstein insisted, mathematics is «a product of human thought that is independent of experience,» how can it so accurately describe and even predict the world around us?
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