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Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics : ウィキペディア英語版 | Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics is a catchphrase, alluding to the well-known article by physicist Eugene Wigner, "''The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences''". This catchphrase is meant to suggest that mathematical analysis has not proved as valuable in other fields as it has in physics. ==Life sciences== For example, I. M. Gelfand, a famous mathematician who worked in biomathematics and molecular biology, as well as many other fields in applied mathematics, is quoted as stating, :''Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.'' A more nuanced view is given by Leonard Adleman, a theoretical computer scientist who pioneered the field of DNA computing. In Adleman's view, "''Sciences reach a point where they become mathematized''," starting at the fringes but eventually "the central issues in the field become sufficiently understood that they can be thought about mathematically. It occurred in physics about the time of the Renaissance; it began in chemistry after John Dalton developed atomic theory" and by the 1990s was taking place in biology.〔( Gene Genie )〕 By the early 1990s, ''Biology was no longer the science of things that smelled funny in refrigerators (my view from undergraduate days in the 1960s)..The field was undergoing a revolution and was rapidly acquiring the depth and power previously associated exclusively with the physical sciences. Biology was now the study of information stored in DNA - strings of four letters: A, T, G, and C..and the transformations that information undergoes in the cell. There was mathematics here!''〔(with DNA (Scientific American) 1998 https://www.usc.edu/.../fp-sciam98.pdf )〕
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