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| Eugene Wigner |
Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contribution to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles. In a famous article published in 1960, Wigner said:
It is important to point out that the mathematical formulation of the physicist's often crude experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a large class of phenomena. (“The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences”. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13: 1-14).
