Timeline for Why certain diophantine equations are interesting (and others are not) ?
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| Oct 17, 2010 at 20:39 | comment | added | Laie | I of course completely agree that many mathematicians don't pay any attention to physics. But we live now, not millenia ago, and for the past 20 years string theory has had a definite impact on mathematics. It seems to me that as a selection criterion it does occasionally play a role, if perhaps a minor one in the big scheme of things, because there is a lot of interesting structure associated to higher dimensional CY varieties, more so than to some other systems of equations | |
| Oct 17, 2010 at 15:03 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | But diophantine equations have been studied for literally millenia! I would say that the role played by the physical motivation is rather minor in the way mathematicians pick "interesting equations"... | |
| Oct 16, 2010 at 21:03 | history | edited | Laie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 16, 2010 at 20:41 | history | answered | Laie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |