Mark Steiner (Hebrew: מארק שטיינר; May 6, 1942 – April 6, 2020) was an American-born Israeli professor of philosophy.
He then received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1972 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "On mathematical knowledge.
[3] Steiner died on April 6, 2020, in Shaare Zedek Medical Center, after contracting the COVID-19 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel.
The book may be considered an extended meditation on the issues raised by Eugene Wigner's article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".
Steiner also translated Reuven Agushewitz's philosophical work Emune un Apikorses from Yiddish.