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The Match of ‘Ideals’: The Historical Necessity of the Interconnection between Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Social Epistemology 35 (1):20-36 (2020)
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The problem of ‘applicability’ of mathematics to modern physical sciences has been labeled as an ‘unreasonably effective’ and unexplainable ‘miracle’ by prominent physicists such as Eugene Wigner a...My notes
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