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Pure math keeps predicting reality

Physicist Eugene Wigner called it the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Ideas born for beauty end up explaining the world.

Mathematics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness

A vibrant abstract planet surrounded by intricate orbits in space.

Shapes that steer planets

Greeks studied ellipses as conic sections. Centuries later, Kepler found planets move in elliptical paths.

Mathematics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness