The mathematical physicist John Baez is in his early 50s. His first cousin Joan, the musician, is twenty years his senior. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Cordwell, William R <wrcordw@sandia.gov> wrote:
"This generation"? Isn't Baez in her 70s?
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces+cordwell=sandia.gov@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces+cordwell=sandia.gov@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stay Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:26 PM To: math-fun Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [math-fun] Nima Arkani-Hamed complaint transmission
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Perhaps I don't know enough physics, but I find Nima's lectures a lot more comprehensible than those of most physicists. I'm not aware of any of this generation of physicists who have Feynmann's gift of both accuracy & clarity of exposition.
I'd nominate John Baez.
That having been said, I haven't yet had a chance to look at this particular video of Nima's, but I'm looking forward to it.
At 12:36 PM 9/19/2013, Warren D Smith wrote:
somebody on the net was complaining that math is hard because you need to prove theorems, physics is hard because your theories have to work, but Nima Arkani-Hamed does neither theorems nor physics that works, so his life is easy. (He got a $3M prize for an example.)
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