WHY ARE THE LAWS OF NATURE MATHEMATICAL?
Few scientists stop to wonder why the fundamental laws of the universe are mathematical; they just take it for granted. Yet the fact that “mathematics works” when applied to the physical world–and works so stunningly well–demands explanation, for it is not clear we have any absolute right to expect that the world should be well described by mathematics.
—Paul Davies, The Mind of God, 150 (Simon & Schuster 1992).
