Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable
effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature.
Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as
it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers
have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so
perfectly explain the natural world. More than that -- mathematics has
often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic
phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true.
Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? If, as Einstein insisted,
mathematics is "a product of human thought that is independent of
experience," how can it so accurately describe and even predict
the world around us?

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