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Originally Posted by renormalised
Yes, brilliant in all respects.
In any case, a brilliant physicist should also be good at maths...this compartmentalsation of science and this "us" and "them" attitude makes me laugh at times. The fact that he can "surprise" the maths community is just another signpost of just how insular the knowledge on this planet has become. It looks more like a priesthood/religion than anything else.
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A brilliant physicist is good at applying mathematics. It's extremely rare for a physicist to create new mathematics. Witten is an exception to the rule. Newton is another example although the distinction between physics and mathematics in his time was blurred.
Mathematicians on the other hand have done well, winning the Nobel prize in various fields.
- 1950: Bertrand Russell (literature)
- 1954: Max Born, Walther Bothe (physics)
- 1972: Kenneth Arrow (economics)
- 1994: John Forbes Nash (economics)
- 2003: Clive W. J. Granger (economics)
- 2005: Robert J. Autmann, Thomas C. Schelling (economics)
Regards
Steven