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A comment on Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video].

Re:Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011)... by throw0101d on Saturday July 26, 2025 @08:20PM (#44697952)
See also perhaps the 1960 article/essay "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

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Re:Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011)... by guyomes on Sunday July 27, 2025 @06:43AM (#44700329)
See also the Wikipedia page on the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics, notably in biology and economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreasonable_ineffectiveness_o...
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Re:Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011)... by gsf_emergency_2 on Sunday July 27, 2025 @08:05AM (#44700725)
More recent commentary by a math & bio prof:

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8819811

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