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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Joliet_Junior_College/JJC_-_PHYS_110/02%3A_Book-_Conceptual_Physics_(Crowell)/2.13%3A_Optics/2.13.03%3A_Images_Quantitatively
      This is the kind of thing the physicist Eugene Wigner referred to as “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.” Sometimes we can find a deeper reason for this kind of unexpected simplicity, but ...This is the kind of thing the physicist Eugene Wigner referred to as “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.” Sometimes we can find a deeper reason for this kind of unexpected simplicity, but sometimes it almost seems as if God went out of Her way to make the secrets of universe susceptible to attack by the human thought-tool called math.

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