Edward Witten: what makes him such a good physicist and mathematician?

[RFeynman]

What’s the story behind the genius of Edward Witten?
How is to work with him?
Have you ever had him as a professor?
How can he be such a good mathematician and a physicist?( retorical hahah.)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

You can start with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten

 

[phyzguy]

There's also a recent interview with him:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/edward-witten-ponders-the-nature-of-reality-20171128/

 

[StatGuy2000]

As an aside, his daughter is a statistician with research interests in machine learning and high-dimensional data.

https://faculty.washington.edu/dwitten/index.html

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We also have a video of him in our gallery. Such a soft voice!
https://www.physicsforums.com/media/edward-witten-Newton-medal-winner-2010.26/

 

[robphy]

As an side, his daughter is a statistician with research interests in machine learning and high-dimensional data.

https://faculty.washington.edu/dwitten/index.html

His father is a relativist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Witten
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/36985

 

[RFeynman]

We also have a video of him in our gallery. Such a soft voice!
https://www.physicsforums.com/media/edward-witten-Newton-medal-winner-2010.26/

He looks so calm, when talking he talks with such clarity, he looks like is in a new other level.

 

[RFeynman]

If I have the grades, I hope to meet him and ask him to mentoring me, but is just a dream, because there are out there all of very intelligent wannabe physicists.
He is my look to physicist.
(I new a bit from him, since two years now.)