Tuesday, 17.10.2023 at 16:15, Kneza Mihaila 36, room 301f
Zvonimir Šikić, Center for Logic and Decision Theory, University of Rijeka
WIGNER'S PROBLEM AND REAL NUMBERS
Eugene Wigner articulated in his famous article "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences" what many scientists had recognized long before him; the exceptional applicability of mathematics in the natural sciences. He then stated that this applicability is "unreasonable". We will consider Wigner's problem in the specific case of real numbers, which are measures of almost all quantities in exact sciences. After reminding ourselves of the most common approaches to real numbers in mathematics, with which their application can indeed seem "unreasonable", we will prove that it still has a very simple explanation.
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