The Universe Speaks in Numbers

"The question is: Can you develop the rich mathematics of those theories in order to advance and maybe even work towards a unified understanding of those basic forces, which is something that the string framework purports to do? . . . I wanted to...

Frequent Director's Visitor Graham Farmelo has interviewed IAS scholars past and present—including Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sir Michael Atiyah, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Freeman Dyson, Michael Green, Juan Maldacena, Greg Moore, Sir Roger Penrose, and Edward Witten—to discuss mathematics, physics, and the interplay between them.