Eugene Wigner

Eugene Wigner (1902 - 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963 for his work on modelling the atomic nucleus.

In 1960 he published a paper (reproduced below) in which he discussed the relationship between mathematics and the natural sciences. It is a philosophical work in which he considers the nature of empirical predictions and the certainty of mathematical knowledge

Wigner the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics