News from the world of maths: Unreasonable effectiveness
Submitted by plusadmin on January 22, 2009Thursday, January 22, 2009
When it comes to describing natural phenomena, mathematics is amazingly — even unreasonably — effective. In this article Mario Livio looks at an example of strings and knots, taking us from the mysteries of physical matter to the most esoteric outpost of pure mathematics, and back again.
posted by Plus @ 3:36 PM 
