The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics. Episode 2, Why Mathematics Works So Well with Physics
(2021, original release: 2020)
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2020
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
12245178
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames
Physics is a mathematical science. But why should manipulating numbers give insight into how the world works? This question was famously posed by physicist Eugene Wigner in his 1960 paper, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” Explore proposed answers, including Max Tegmark’s assertion that the world is, in fact, a mathematical system
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Steven Gimbel
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English