Re: citations of nature
Date: 1 Jan 2004 12:28:06 -0800
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"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:<DlUIb.73073$aT.40705_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> Do primitive databases exist in nature in some form?
> If so, in what form(s)?
Wigner, Eugene. "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences," in Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 13, No. I (February 1960). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Google knows where you can find a copy.
Wigner ruminates on the observation that mathematics, and mathematical models, have a tremendous and surprising capacity to describe 'reality'. In other words, if you want to reason about 'the natural world' in a useful way, look to mathematics as a tool. Received on Thu Jan 01 2004 - 21:28:06 CET