Timeline for Mathematicians learning from applications to other fields
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 8, 2022 at 19:35 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Asaf Karagila♦ | ||
| May 7, 2022 at 13:09 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | My impression was that Witten was mostly awarded the Fields Medal for his work on topological QFTs and low-dimensional geometry/topology, rather than string theory. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 0:42 | comment | added | Aaron Bergman | For what it’s worth, much of the work Witten was awarded the Fields medal for was in quantum field theory and general relativity, not string theory. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 13:16 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | Physics related to observations, I don’t think string theory is there quite yet. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 12:44 | comment | added | Kimball | What kind of physics are we talking about? I guess you have in mind string theory from your about Witten, but I was under the impression that math contributed just as much to physics if not more than math got back. Can you explain a little more? | |
| May 5, 2022 at 6:37 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | good point, I changed "net" into "dominant". | |
| May 5, 2022 at 6:36 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
net --> dominant
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| May 5, 2022 at 6:25 | comment | added | Zach Teitler | May I suggest to use a different phrasing than "net benefit". This is not a transaction where the benefits to the two sides are subtracted. | |
| May 4, 2022 at 20:08 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |