The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences

The work

AuthorsEugene P. Wigner
Editors
Typearticle
Year1960
Citekeywigner1960unreasonable

Where it appeared

Published inCommunications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Volume13
Issue1
Pages1--14

Identifiers

DOI10.1002/cpa.3160130102

Settled

Abstractcarried over from `abstract_absent` at the 1.0 migration

Related

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@article{wigner1960unreasonable,
  title        = {The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences},
  author       = {Eugene P. Wigner},
  year         = {1960},
  journal      = {Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics},
  volume       = {13},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {1--14},
  doi          = {10.1002/cpa.3160130102},
}

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