Luis Álvarez-Gaumé interviewed by Graham Farmelo

The Universe Speaks in Numbers

Sep 26, 201921:05Science & Medicine

Fundamental physics and pure mathematics have never been so closely intertwined. Over the past few decades, some of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and mathematicians explored these connections at the Simons C...

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