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In 1960 Eugene Wigner published an article titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.”
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E. Wigner, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 13 (1960).
Galileo Galilei The Assayer.
For a short summary of the history and properties of hyperbolic geometry see e.g. Chapter 1 of S. Weinberg Gravitation and Cosmology, Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (1972) (John Wiley and Sons, New York).
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Garfinkle, D. (2016). The Language of Nature. In: Aguirre, A., Foster, B., Merali, Z. (eds) Trick or Truth?. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27495-9_11
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