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See also perhaps the article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences":

* https://web.archive.org/web/20210212111540/http://www.dartmo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...



`"Well, now you are pushing your joke too far," said the classmate, "surely the population has nothing to do with the circumference of the circle."`

I've always loved this line and paraphrase it often. It's an eminently reasonable and yet accidentally profound thing to say.




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