The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

About this book

Hamming's response to Eugene Wigner's article entitled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences", published in 1960. This response was originally published as part of the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 87, No. 2, Feb., 1980. Hamming expands on Wigner's ideas, tackling on the question implied on the title of the response, although doing so loosely as to leave the question open.