Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Steve Paulson discusses with physicist S. James Gates, Jr. and science writer Margaret Wertheim whether theoretical physicists have strayed too far from studying nature and come to rely too heavily on mathematics.

This is an excerpt from "The Mystery of Our Mathematical Universe" recorded on October 10, 2018 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion, see: youtu.be/M2YvRWZCmo0