{"id":167,"date":"2014-05-01T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=167"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:03:51","slug":"on-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-mathematics-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/on-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-mathematics-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bryan Roberts\/\u00a0Mairi Sakellariadou\/\u00a0Eleanor Knox<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2423\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 1 May 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-BryanRoberts.aspx\"><strong>Bryan Roberts<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/nms\/depts\/physics\/people\/academicstaff\/sakellariadou.aspx\"><strong>Mairi Sakellariadou<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Theoretical Physics, King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/depts\/philosophy\/people\/staff\/academic\/knox.aspx\"><strong>Eleanor Knox<\/strong><\/a>, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p>Galileo famously wrote that natural philosophy is \u2018written in the language of mathematics\u2019. Four hundred years later, the great physicist Eugene Wigner puzzled over why. Why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like an imaginary number, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing concrete aspects of the natural world? In this event, philosopher of physics\u00a0<strong>Bryan Roberts<\/strong>\u00a0and theoretical physicist\u00a0<strong>Mairi Sakellariadou<\/strong>\u00a0commented on Wigner\u2019s question, and then joined a discussion on the issue with philosopher of physics\u00a0<strong>Eleanor Knox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Roberts\/\u00a0Mairi Sakellariadou\/\u00a0Eleanor Knox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[88,57,26],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-mathematics","tag-philosophyofscience","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}