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I've agreed, perhaps unwisely, to give a talk to Philosophers about string theory.

I'd like to give the philosophers an overview of the status and influence of string theory in physics, which I feel competent to do, but I would also like to say something about the influence it has had in mathematics where I am on less familiar ground. I've read the Jaffe-Quinn manifesto and the responses in http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404229. What I would like from MO are pointers to more recent discussions of this issue in the mathematical community so that I can get a sense of where things stand 616 years later.

I've agreed, perhaps unwisely, to give a talk to Philosophers about string theory.

I'd like to give the philosophers an overview of the status and influence of string theory in physics, which I feel competent to do, but I would also like to say something about the influence it has had in mathematics where I am on less familiar ground. I've read the Jaffe-Quinn manifesto and the responses in http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404229. What I would like from MO are pointers to more recent discussions of this issue in the mathematical community so that I can get a sense of where things stand 6 years later.

I've agreed, perhaps unwisely, to give a talk to Philosophers about string theory.

I'd like to give the philosophers an overview of the status and influence of string theory in physics, which I feel competent to do, but I would also like to say something about the influence it has had in mathematics where I am on less familiar ground. I've read the Jaffe-Quinn manifesto and the responses in http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404229. What I would like from MO are pointers to more recent discussions of this issue in the mathematical community so that I can get a sense of where things stand 16 years later.

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The influence of string theory on mathematics for philosophers.

I've agreed, perhaps unwisely, to give a talk to Philosophers about string theory.

I'd like to give the philosophers an overview of the status and influence of string theory in physics, which I feel competent to do, but I would also like to say something about the influence it has had in mathematics where I am on less familiar ground. I've read the Jaffe-Quinn manifesto and the responses in http://arxiv.org/abs/math.HO/9404229. What I would like from MO are pointers to more recent discussions of this issue in the mathematical community so that I can get a sense of where things stand 6 years later.