Wigner's ``unreasonable effectiveness in context
DOI10.1007/s00283-017-9719-9zbMath1457.81007OpenAlexW2612320212MaRDI QIDQ2400836
Publication date: 30 August 2017
Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17307/1/wigner_s00283-017-9719-9.pdf
Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Physics (00A79) Spaces of games (91A70)
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