The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959

✍ Scribed by Eugene P. Wigner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 975 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-3640
• DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3160130102

✦ Synopsis

and it i s probable that there i s some secret here which remains to be discovered." (C. S . Peirce) 'The remark to be quoted was made by F. Werner when he was a student in Princeton.
What is Mathematics?
lThis statement is quoted here from W. Dubislav's Die Philosophie der Mathematik in dev Gegenwavi. Junker und Dunnhaupt Verlag, Berlin, 1932, p. 1.