🧵 witten thread

Anonymous at Tue, 7 May 2024 19:41:06 UTC No. 16164485

https://youtu.be/PZ_qnBwSejE?t=1568
witten now believes that the project to teach mathematicians about quantum field and string theory was only a moderate success. he's come to believe that even though QFT and string theory knows lots of mathematics to be able to apply it in math the way witten did you need to learn the physics of it first.