One of John Barrow's books is about the fit between phyiscs and mathmatics
but I can't remember the title and have my copy packed away.
Bob Miller
At 12:11 AM 3/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
>While it isn't from a Christian perspective, metaphysical issues that many
>ASA people would find interesting are raised in Eugene Wigner's famous essay
>"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,"
>which is on the Web many places, for example:
>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
>
>For example, a statement near the end is:
>"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the
>formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither
>understand nor deserve."
>
> From a Christian standpoint, one might say that this "wonderful gift" was a
>part of God's design so that we could investigate his creation and fulfill
>our stewardship mandate. It would take more of a philosopher and/or
>theologian than I am in order to expand that thought into a coherent article,
>though it would not surprise me if somebody had done it somewhere.
>
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