Simon Donaldson interviewed by Graham Farmelo

The Universe Speaks in Numbers

Oct 24, 201916:03Science & Medicine

The discoveries the Simon Donaldson made in the early 1980s about four-dimensional spaces 'stunned the mathematical world', his research adviser Michael Atiyah later recalled. Donaldson was using the physicists' theory o...

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