[drbaskin]

The title of this post seems to be a reference to the famous paper of Wigner titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences." It is a very readable paper and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_...

[chalst]

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of X" has become a snowclone (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000350.h...).

Check Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22the+unreasonable+effec...)