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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Completeness of Theories
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In article <3008@sjuvax.UUCP> bhuber@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Huber) writes:
>I have not the historical knowledge or perspective to place these bits of
>'mathematical culture' in any coherent framework, but they do suggest that
>(in the last two centuries at least) there has never been an end to the
>mutual influence of mathematical and physical inquiries.

True.  But it was pretty poor in the half-century 1915-65 I listed.  In
particular, mutual inability to understand was extremely widespread, and
unfortunately is still rather large.  For example, physicists developed
the notion of gauge field theories and mathematicians of principal fiber
bundles, and the two fields had no idea that they were working with the
same object for the longest time.

The worst problem is that having gone their own ways, there is now an
incredibly large language gap.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720