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1.4 Edward Frenkel Q&A
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Do you think an alien civilization would have the same mathematics as us?
Eugene Wigner famously discussed the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural science.' Why is it unreasonable? Isn't math rooted in natural science?
What advances in mathematics have led to discoveries in physics?