Timeline for Physics that needs "new" math [closed]
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| May 12, 2015 at 14:55 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | Calculus by Newton, how could I forget that? :-) Yes, that's the "canonical" answer (and my question can as well be closed). | |
| May 12, 2015 at 2:17 | comment | added | user21349 | Physicist to string theorist: You've had this research program going on for 35 years, and it's not yet looking like a healthy physical theory. Why should anyone keep giving you funding? Standard answer from a string theorist: String theory is a piece of 21st-century mathematics that's fallen out of the sky into the 20th century, and it's going to require 22nd-century mathematics to solve it. Even if it's never going to be a correct Theory of Everything, keep funding us, because it's wonderful mathematics. | |
| May 11, 2015 at 19:13 | history | closed |
coudy Alexandre Eremenko Andy Putman Suvrit Terry Tao |
Needs details or clarity | |
| May 11, 2015 at 19:02 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 11, 2015 at 19:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 11, 2015 at 18:56 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | There are plenty of examples when new math was created by physicists or for the needs of physics. A VERY large part of Mathematics was created to answer the concerns of physicists. | |
| May 11, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | Unfortunately I am not competent enough to make it an answer but I strongly believe that mathematicians still have not found truly adequate formalism to deal with things like chiral algebras, vertex operators, operator product expansions... VOAs have made very interesting piece of mathematics but in my opinion it is still quite obscure for general mathematical community | |
| May 11, 2015 at 18:39 | comment | added | KConrad | How about calculus by Newton? Or Dirac's delta function? | |
| May 11, 2015 at 18:36 | comment | added | Benoît Kloeckner | Could you clearly state your question please? | |
| May 11, 2015 at 18:31 | history | asked | Hauke Reddmann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |