A review of the life of physicist Arthur Wightman,
who died at 90 on January 13th, 2013. yields
the following.
Wightman at Wikipedia:
"His graduate students include
Arthur Jaffe, Jerrold Marsden, and Alan Sokal."
"I think of Arthur as the spiritual leader
of mathematical physics and his death
really marks the end of an era."
— Arthur Jaffe in News at Princeton , Jan. 30
Marsden at Wikipedia:
"He [Marsden] has laid much of the foundation for
symplectic topology." (Link redirects to symplectic geometry.)
A Wikipedia reference in the symplectic geometry article leads to…
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THE SYMPLECTIZATION OF SCIENCE:
Mark J. Gotay
James A. Isenberg February 18, 1992 Acknowledgments:
We would like to thank Jerry Marsden and Alan Weinstein Published in: Gazette des Mathématiciens 54, 59-79 (1992). Opening:
"Physics is geometry . This dictum is one of the guiding |
A different account of the dictum:
The strange term Geometrodynamics
is apparently due to Wheeler.
Physics may or may not be geometry, but
geometry is definitely not physics.
For some pure geometry that has no apparent
connection to physics, see this journal
on the date of Wightman's death.