On the Correspondence between Mathematics and Physics

John Karpinsky
10 min readMay 24, 2020

John Karpinsky May 24, 2020

There is an ongoing question in Physics as to why Mathematics describes the physical universe so effectively. Mathematicians are mystified as well. This paper is an attempt to show an approach that might illuminate this relationship and enable progress toward some answers to this question.

Definitions

In order talk about this subject, We need some new words to describe Mathematics. The problem with most presently defined words is that they assume a tangible…

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John Karpinsky

I am a retired physicist, with 40+ years experience designing chips. I’m now studying quantum mechanics as a hobby.