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ESR doesn't mention the famous 1960 paper: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...

And Richard Hamming's follow up in 1980: http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/Hamming.unreasonable.html

I didn't know about this, thanks!

While we are at it, there is also the 2009 paper: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data by Peter Norvig.

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