Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

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griffzhowl · 8h ago

Nice lecture about Dirac.

If you prefer to read, this 1939 paper by Dirac is a characteristically lucid discussion of similar themes:

The Relation between Mathematics and Physics [PDF]

http://mcs.une.edu.au/~pmth213/PapersOfInterest/Paul%20Dirac...

lucb1e · 10h ago

Recently learned of this from the german-spoken podcast AstroGeo. If someone wants to listen to this Large Numbers Hypothesis story in podcast form, I enjoyed that episode: https://astrogeo.de/expandierende-erde-zu-grosse-zahlen-und-... (no affiliation)

throw0101d · 10h ago

See also perhaps the 1960 article/essay "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

guyomes · 22m ago

See also the Wikipedia page on the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics, notably in biology and economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreasonable_ineffectiveness_o...

jppope · 6h ago

Wonderful talk. I now have some reading material for the next week :)

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Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

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