The role of nature and brain in demystifying the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics”

Philosophical Psychology 32 (8):1221-1245 (2019)
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ABSTRACTIn 1960, Eugene P. Wigner shared his observation of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in formulating regularities in nature. Later, Jean Piaget recognized the functioning of the...

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