MAKE STRONG COLLOBORATION BETWEEN MATHS AND PHYSIC: David Gross
Posted on: 06/Jan/2011 12:30:54 AM
David Gross, Nobel Laureate and director, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, the U.S., was speaking to students at ‘Physics and Mathematics at the Frontier` hosted by the Chennai Mathematical Institute students of Chennai on Wednesday.
He said that while mathematics and physics were different to some extent , they had had the longest union and the most purposefull exchange in the exploration of fundamental science. Professor Gross said recent attempts to construct unified theories of matter and gravity, as in the advancement of string theory, had rejuvenated connections between physics and frontier mathematics.
Professor Gross, a 2004 Nobel laureate in Physics.
See for more detail :http://www.pnas.org/content/85/22/8371.full.pdf
