Wigner and the ‘gift’ of mathematics
FEB 01, 2008
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796754
Wilczek replies: Interested readers deserve the pleasure of reading Wigner’s classic essay for themselves. Here’s how he began it: “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.” I don’t think I misrepresented him.
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Frank Wilczek, 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US .
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