<a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/from-the-vaults-mathematics/" title="From the vaults: On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?zoom=2&resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?zoom=3&resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-attachment-id="10412" data-permalink="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/from-the-vaults-mathematics/1-mi-stf/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?fit=2500%2C700&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2500,700" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="1 MI STF" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?fit=300%2C84&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/106/files/2020/05/1-MI-STF.jpg?fit=1024%2C287&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" /></a>Eleanor Knox, Bryan Roberts, and Mairi Sakellariadou discuss why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like imaginary numbers, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing the natural world
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Eleanor Knox, Bryan Roberts, and Mairi Sakellariadou discuss why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like imaginary numbers, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing the natural world The post From the vaults: On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science first appeared on Forum for Philosophy.

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