Fallible Animals Episode 7: Interview with Science Writer Graham Farmelo
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
Einstein was a philosophical thinker, as well as the theoretical physicist. And he wrote in 1952 that the central miracle was that our universe is ordered. There is an underlying order to this teeming, seemingly chaotic universe. Now those patterns, those patterns are the work of physicists. That's what they're trying to do. But mathematicians also study patterns. As G.H. Hardy said, they're looking at patterns of ideas. What we find then is that the patterns studied by the mathematicians are incredibly useful at understanding those patterns that we find in nature. So that's essentially why the physicists and mathematicians work together. They're both fundamentally interested in patterns. We have the gorgeous
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