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- The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939) http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html 18 comments
- Happy 100th birthday to Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat! She is famous for her work in mathematical physics and has made seminal contributions to the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity. She was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Choquet-Bruhat 5 comments math
- The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2023 is awarded to Vladimir Drinfeld and Shing-Tung Yau for their contributions related to mathematical physics, to arithmetic geometry, to differential geometry and to Kähler geometry https://www.shawprize.org/prizes-and-laureates/mathematical-sciences/2023/press-release 7 comments math
- Georg Riemann lectured the foundations of the mathematics for Albert Einstein's general relativity from as early as 1854.He was also the first to suggest using dimensions higher than merely three or four in order to describe physical reality https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201306/physicshistory.cfm 64 comments math
- I have read everything in the FAQ and all related threads, however I have once question that is unanswered; to what extent does evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson allow for an increased _elegance_ of the mathematics of particle physics? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/11/23/thanksgiving/ 5 comments askscience
- Physical activity, especially physical education, improves classroom behaviors and benefits several aspects of academic achievement, especially mathematics-related skills, reading, and composite scores in youth, finds a meta-analysis of 26 studies (10,205 children, aged from 4 to 13). http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/11/21/peds.2017-1498 5 comments science