Timeline for What are the main contributions to the mathematics of general relativity by Sir Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel prize?
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Oct 8, 2020 at 17:02 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @Roboticist : Penrose's invocation of Goedel's incompleteness theorem to support his claims about consciousness are, at minimum, highly controversial. I would say that the dominant view among those trained in logic is that Penrose's argument is fallacious. | |
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Oct 8, 2020 at 12:11 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | See his views on quantum mechanics and the nature of consciousness, for example. Also his criticisms of cosmic inflation in the face of current experimental evidence. | |
Oct 8, 2020 at 6:32 | comment | added | gmvh | "mathematical physicist" is perfectly fine, my objection was only to the specific term "a mathematically literate physicist", which suggest something else. | |
Oct 8, 2020 at 2:04 | comment | added | user106458 | What are his "very controversial" statement? | |
Oct 7, 2020 at 20:56 | comment | added | Robert Furber | @gmvh In this interview Penrose says that physicists consider him a mathematician and mathematicians consider him a physicist, and he puts "mathematical physicist" when he has to write something on an official form: youtu.be/JiDWGbsVEno?t=1434 | |
Oct 7, 2020 at 19:18 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | It depends on whether you consider a mathematical physicist to be a mathematician or a physicist, I would say the latter. | |
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Oct 7, 2020 at 19:15 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | He is definitely a mathematical physicist. Does that mean Taubes cannot be called a mathematician because his undergraduate degree and PhD are in physics? I will change to 'mathematical physicist'. | |
Oct 7, 2020 at 19:03 | comment | added | gmvh | I'm not sure Penrose can be called "a mathematically literate physicist", given that both his undergraduate degree and PhD are in mathematics. | |
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