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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Interconnections Between Ideas and Physics Replaces Mathematical Rigorousness
"I use physics to define new mathematics in a way which would be far less rigorous than a physicist might necessarily believe because I take the physical intuition, perhaps literally that could teach us the math," he says. "Sometimes it takes math, math friends of God." He was inspired by interactions with Whitten and his work on compact phasing string geometry.
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