“It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.” HumorFunnyScienceNatureMysteryMathematicsMathLaws Of NatureLaws Of PhysicsPhysicistsMathematiciansTheoremHenri PoincaréPoincaré Book:Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory Source: Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory