« BackPaul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]youtube.comSubmitted by magnifique 11 hours ago
  • griffzhowl 6 hours 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 9 hours 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 9 hours 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...

        • jppope 4 hours ago

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