The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics

IN PROGRESS Many knowledgeable writers have explored the question of why it is that mathematical models are so effective at describing phenomena in the real world. Not only can we use it to model known physical situations, but it can also describe and predict outcomes of experiments that were not envisioned during the development of the mathematical model, and which didn't figure at all into the development of the model. We call these types of models or theories "fruitful", in that they are capable of predicting novel phenomena.

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