torsdag 7 maj 2015

On " the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences"

There is allot of fuzz on this question out there. E.g. on fqxi. To me this is not so strange. If we assume nature has structure, and is not only chaos, then why would not any attempt to capture that structure succed?

The point is that any modeling structure that you can come up with will be sufficient to describe (that is, model) at least a part of reality (in  approximation). And from there it is just refinement. Science is an optimization process, or a search if you want. An optimization to minimize the error between model and measuremen.

Thus we (the humans) could have started from any mathematics and enevideble would have ended up with a physical model that will capture some part of reality.

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