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CHAPTER ening lecture on the efficiency of mathematics. He presented two ways to decipher this intriguing efficiency, expressing what the entire scien- tific community already acknowledges: ¢ “either this language is thought to be the language of nature and those who study and wish to understand nature must evidently master it, - or on the contrary, this language is thought to be the language of man and the facts of nature must therefore inevitably be translated atoad te 4 . aad ” into that language if we are to understand them.” Many, particularly Plato, Aristotle and Kant, but also those who look closely at the proliferation of instruments and utterly invented concepts, believe that the first solution is wrong. As for the latter, we assume that mathematics is the only human language capable of describing the world. In my opinion, that is the biggest error of con- temporary science. Ubu said: “So here I am, King in this country!”’. Is that convincing enough? It is true that the Coué method has its merits. Feynman felt that “we practice mathematical physics for lack of a bet- ter way.” In the article “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegte KGrper,’”’ published in 1905 describing special relativity through the bias of clock coordina- tion," Einstein used a style that was met with astonishment. Peter Gal- 2940 2. 668 ison observed™: “it does not really look like an ordinary article on physics. There are hardly any footnotes, very few equations, it does not mention new experimental results, but uses a great deal of banter to describe simple physical processes that do not seem anywhere near the 107 Mathematician or Creator of the universe? ETIENNE KLEIN GAVE A PARTICULARLY enlight-