Скачать или смотреть Phymaths podcast # 58 || Dr. John Baez

Description
Dr. John Baez is a theoretical physicist and mathematician, previously at UC Riverside and now at the University of Edinburgh, who works on Quantum Gravity, Network Theory, and higher categories. The list of his works is linked below.

Some links
1) Dr. Baez's works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1017689
2) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-le...

Contact Info
My website: hassaansaleem.com
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Time stamps
0:00 Coming up
1:23 Intro of the guest
1:42 His current projects
6:25 Octonions
15:44 Octonions and quantum logic
21:49 Knot theory
28:53 Other Knot invriants
31:04 His categorification program
45:51 Categories and Russell's program
53:45 Future directions for the program
1:01:56 Generalized symmetries
1:06:23 Topos theory
1:12:54 Network theory
1:19:32 OPen networks and compositionality
1:29:07 This Week's findings in Mathematical Physics
1:33:41 The crackpot index
1:42:00 New entry in the crackpot index
1:43:15 AI and future of physics
1:50:01 Advent of Computers vs advent of AI
1:56:02 Sphere packing and practical applications
1:58:14 Unsolved problems in physics
2:05:16 Mathematical rigor of QFT
2:11:28 Dealing with failure in research
2:18:10 (People's question) Beauty as a guide
2:20:25 (People's question) Undergrad math
2:22:23 (People's question) Retaining knowledge
2:25:23 (People's question) "Foolish" idea that was good
2:27:18 (People's question) Moving sofa problem
2:29:31 (People's question) Unsolved problems in maths