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A counterpoint to this is Derek Abbott's "The Reasomable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics." Personally, I think domains with low-N (dimensions and sample sizes) and high complexity remain beyond the optimistic expectations of Eugene Wigner. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/462d/7b6b1ee8243b6aa8897be3...


Also: A naturalist account of the limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics - Lee Smolin

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03733




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