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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Simple Idea That Unifies Algebra and Geometry?
I think even most mathematicians have no really don't actually understand what this is about them in the group of people who really understand all these ideas. So many people talk about like Langlands for example is one of the most brilliant people in mathematics and I can't it's like almost I can't hear the music that he composed and it makes me sadYeah well I mean I think that unfortunately it's not just you it's I think even most physicists feel they should be able to understand some of their work. It still seems it's pretty clearly far beyond me right now so if we can step into the back to the question of beauty is there an idea that maybe is a little bit
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