Miracle of Math

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is the title of an article published in 1960 by the physicist Eugene Wigner. In it, Wigner observed that the mathematical structure of a physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to other predictions. It also led him to believe in the ‘miracle’ of mathematics. In fact, he went so far as to say “the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious with no rational explanation for it.” More than half a century later, MIT professor Max Tegmark has taken the notion a step forward in the direction of a solution to the mystery. In Our Mathematical Universe, published in 2014, he explores the possibility that mathematics may not just describe the universe, but actually make the universe.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is the title of an article published in 1960 by the physicist Eugene Wigner. In it, Wigner observed that the mathematical structure of a physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to other predictions. It also led him to believe in the ‘miracle’ of mathematics. In fact, he went so far as to say “the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious with no rational explanation for it.” More than half a century later, MIT professor Max Tegmark has taken the notion a step forward in the direction of a solution to the mystery. In Our Mathematical Universe, published in 2014, he explores the possibility that mathematics may not just describe the universe, but actually make the universe.

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