Robbert Dijkgraaf - Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics?
April 20, 2020
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What is it about mathematics that it can describe so accurately the world around us? From quantum physics, the very smallest features and forces of the foundations of matter and energy, to cosmology, the very largest structures and forces of the beginning and evolution of the universe, mathematics is the language of description. Why does the physical world follow so faithfully equations of abstract symbols and variables?
Robbert Dijkgraaf is a theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is professor at and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a tenured professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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