Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality
by measurablefunc on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:19AM
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I'm not a physicist either but this stuff isn't magic. Most of the mathematics used by physicists isn't complicated if you've managed to get past calculus.
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Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality
by GOD_Over_Djinn on Friday October 31, 2025 @05:37AM
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At this point, numerous exotic mathematical tools from Langlands program, Lie algebras, algebraic geometry and topology have been used in physics.
I do agree that you can go quite far with calculus, linear algebra, and probability. But I do think that you overstate the case.
Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality
by measurablefunc on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:50PM
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Algebraic geometry isn't any more complicated than multi-variable calculus. It's certainly more abstract but you get used to it after a while. Schemes¹ are not difficult to learn if you know basic commutative algebra & topology. If you don't know basic commutative algebra then you'll have a tougher time but it's again something that can be learned w/ enough practice & patience.
¹https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/eisenbudhar...