1. G. Galilei, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze, 1638, English translation, S. Drake, Discourse Concerning Two New Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1974)
2. M. Tegmark, This Idea Must Die. Brockman (2014)
3. J.-M. Lévy-Leblond, Physique et Mathématique, in Penser les mathématiques, ed. by M. Loi, (Seuil, Paris, 1982)
4. J.-M. Lévy-Leblond, Why does physics need mathematics, in The Scientific Enterprise, ed. by E. Ullmann-Margarit, (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1992), pp. 145–161
5. A more detailed version of these considerations, detailing certain mathematical formulation, can be found in “La physique et l’infini en pratique”, in F. Monnoyeur, ed., Infini des philosophes, Belin (1995)