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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity by drbaskin on Monday February 07, 2011 @09:48AM (#2189055)
The title of this post seems to be a reference to the famous paper of Wigner titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences." It is a very readable paper and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity by chalst on Monday February 07, 2011 @10:08AM (#2189127)
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of X" has become a snowclone (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000350.h...).

Check Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22the+unreasonable+effec...)

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