{"id":9463,"date":"2020-05-05T22:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:11:13","slug":"from-the-vaults-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Eleanor Knox\/ Bryan Roberts\/\u00a0Mairi Sakellariadou<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20140501_1830_unreasonableEffectivenessMathematicsScience.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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, philosophers of physics\u00a0and a theoretical physicist\u00a0ponder Wigner\u2019s question.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-BryanRoberts.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">Bryan Roberts<\/a><br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/nms\/depts\/physics\/people\/academicstaff\/sakellariadou.aspx\">Mairi Sakellariadou<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Theoretical Physics, King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/depts\/philosophy\/people\/staff\/academic\/knox.aspx\">Eleanor Knox<\/a><br \/>\nLeverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 1 May 2014 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Knox, Bryan Roberts, and\u00a0Mairi Sakellariadou discuss why is it that abstract pieces of mathematics, like imaginary numbers, often later turn out to be surprisingly effective in describing the natural world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":10412,"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":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/1-MI-STF.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2sD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","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=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14813,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/14813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}