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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Have You Learned From Edward Witten?

When he was a student, I had the biggest impact by him. Clearly as a grad student at Princeton. So I think that was the time where I was a little bit confused about the relation between math and physics. And to me it was this dichotomy between math andysics. What am I doing? I like math, but this is not exactly. There comes Edward Witten as my advisor and I see him in action.

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