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p.725
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p.39
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It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics
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Full Idea:
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
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From:
Steven Weinberg (Lecture on Applicability of Mathematics [1986], p.725), quoted by Stewart Shapiro - Thinking About Mathematics 2.3
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A reaction:
This suggests that mathematics might be the study of possibilities or hypotheticals, like mental rehearsals for physics. See Hellman's modal structuralism. Maybe mathematicians are reading the mind of God, but I doubt that.
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