On the reasonable and unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in classical and quantum physics

DOI10.1007/s10701-010-9442-2zbMath1211.81014OpenAlexW2075537033MaRDI QIDQ2430436

Arkady Plotnitsky

Publication date: 6 April 2011

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-010-9442-2

zbMATH Keywords

probabilityquantum mechanicsepistemologyclassical physicsmathematical formalismprediction vs. description

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Physics (00A79)

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