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

56 magnifique 4 7/26/2025, 10:32:45 PM youtube.com ↗

Comments (4)

griffzhowl · 3h 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 · 6h 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)

jppope · 1h ago

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

throw0101d · 6h 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...