Is Edward Witten More Mathematician or Physicist?

• Aug 26, 2004

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Lacy33

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Happy Birthday
Edward Witten
August 26

 

• Aug 27, 2004

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Tom McCurdy

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For those who don't know Ed Witten united the 5 different versions of string theory into M-theory

 

• Aug 27, 2004

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Tom McCurdy

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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Witten.html
more info... or just search google

bottom line he is possibly the smartest man alive

 

• Aug 27, 2004

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humanino

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no way...

Tom, do you seriously think some people don't know Witten :surprise:

 

• Aug 27, 2004

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Lacy33

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Only as someone who knows he is also just a nice guy. Not only an alien!
Birthdays are a time for the rest of us to celebrate someone's life and work.

 

• Aug 27, 2004

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selfAdjoint

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How old is he this year?

 

• Aug 27, 2004

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Lacy33

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I think the Who's Who and other sources put him in 1951

 

• Aug 30, 2004

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MathematicalPhysicist

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Tom McCurdy said:

For those who don't know Ed Witten united the 5 different versions of string theory into M-theory

and this gives what exactly?!
he's a mathematical genius but i don't know much about as a physicist because as you know physicists are bound to experiments and not to their paperwork.

 

• Aug 30, 2004

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Lacy33

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Ed's Birthday

loop quantum gravity said:

and this gives what exactly?!
he's a mathematical genius but i don't know much about as a physicist because as you know physicists are bound to experiments and not to their paperwork.

Sorry I don't understand what this has to do with Ed's Birthday which was August 26th, so long ago now it's almost his NEXT birthday