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Originally Posted by sjastro
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This seems a good example of a strange separation between mathematicians and physicists. For no good reason I can see, they seem to not interact terribly much. I remember lecturers discussing this phenomenon at university.
I particularly remember a lunchtime talk I attended at the School of Physics. They had invited a researcher from the School of Maths (Applied) to talk about his work, which was developing a detailed model of stellar oscillations. The thing that struck me was that what he was doing was very obviously astrophysics, however I'd never heard of him or any of his colleagues, the physicists clearly thought it was a very big deal to invite him, and nothing like it ever happened again.