My personal & overly condensed view of mathematics and physics in the 20th century would be summarized like this. Mathematics began as a stool on the three legs of Algebra, Calculus, and Geometry where the last appeared to many to be the weakest leg. It turned out otherwise.https://twitter.com/AsplingEric/status/1116720892481028106 …
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Repeatedly we find that any important problem from math or physics which we consider to be outside geometry/topology has a hidden geometrical nature to it. And there are only so many times you fall for that before you start to see geometry absolutely everywhere.
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the step from geometry to geography is tricky
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