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Revisiting the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
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On balance, with theoretical advances in algorithmic information theory and Quantum Computation it appears that the remarkable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is quite ...
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Two reference requests: Pinsker's inequality and Pontryagin duality
Sorry for such a newbie post and for asking two unrelated references in one shot.
First, I am interested in any proof of Pinsker's inequality.
Second, I wonder what is the best place to read about ...