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"The physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay in the 1960s called 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.' In that essay he asked why nature is so accurately described by mathematics. The question did not start with him. As far back as Pythagoras in the ancient Greek era, there was the idea that the universe was built on mathematics. In the 17th century Galileo eloquently wrote that nature is a 'grand book' that is 'written in the language of mathematics.'