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Fallible Animals Episode 7: Interview with Science Writer Graham Farmelo

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The Long Divorce Between Mathematicians and Physicists

After World War II there was a quote unquote long divorce between the cultures of mathematicians and physicists. What brought them back together in the early to mid 1970s? The success of field theory, I remember I remember it because I basically was a kid,. It really did seem that quantum field theory was the way ahead. That really started the coming together of physicists and mathematicians which continues to this day.

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