Karen Uhlenbeck - Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics?

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What is it about mathematics that it can describe so accurately the world around us? From quantum physics, the very smallest features and forces of the foundations of matter and energy, to cosmology, the very largest structures and forces of the beginning and evolution of the universe, mathematics is the language of description. Why does the physical world follow so faithfully equations of abstract symbols and variables?

Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician and founder of modern geometric analysis. She is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Uhlenbeck is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.

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