The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

摘要: There is a story about two friends, who were classmates in high school, talking their jobs. One of them became statistician and was working on population trends. He showed reprint to his former classmate. The started, as usual, with the Gaussian distribution explained classmate meaning symbols for actual population, average so on. His bit incredulous not quite sure whether pulling leg. “How can you know that?” query. “And what this symbol here?” “Oh,” said statistician, “this π.” “What “The ratio circumference circle its diameter.” “Well, now are pushing your joke too far,” classmate, “surely has nothing do circle.”