Freeman Dyson

Natalie Wolchover Interviews Freeman Dyson and Karen Uhlenbeck

Natalie Wolchover, Senior Writer, Quanta Magazine; Karen Uhlenbeck, Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics IAS; Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences IAS
Physics and mathematics seem to be in a pre-established harmony, as Gottfried Leibniz observed long ago. New ideas generated by mathematical researchers have often proved to be essential to physicists trying to discover the most basic laws of nature...