The Universe Speaks in Numbers

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Phil Anderson interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Phil Anderson was one of the most creative theoretical physicists of the past century. Among dozens of key contributions, he pioneered our understanding of symmetry break

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Nima Arkani-Hamed interviewed by Graham Farmelo (part 2)

The second part of leading theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed's inspiring interview with Graham about the mysterious harmony between pure mathematics and fundamental

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Martin Rees interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Cosmologist Martin Rees, a pioneer of multiverse concept, is one of the most productive and respected thinkers about the origins and development of the universe. A former

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Karen Uhlenbeck interviewed by Graham Farmelo

The interplay between fundamental physics and pure mathematics has led to many remarkable mathematical insights over the past fifty years. Karen Uhlenbeck is one of the m

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Steven Weinberg interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Steven Weinberg is perhaps the most accomplished living theoretical physicist. Now based at the University of Texas at Austin, he has made substantial contributions to ou

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Zohar Komargodski interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Much of understanding of the universe at the finest level is based on modern field theory, rooted in the pioneering contributions of the nineteenth century British natura

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Simon Donaldson interviewed by Graham Farmelo

The discoveries the Simon Donaldson made in the early 1980s about four-dimensional spaces 'stunned the mathematical world', his research adviser Michael Atiyah later reca

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Douglas Stanford and Pedro Vieira interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Douglas Stanford and Pedro Vieira are two of the most brilliant young theoretical physicists who are seeking to understand nature at its finest level. In these two interv

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Luis Álvarez-Gaumé interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Fundamental physics and pure mathematics have never been so closely intertwined. Over the past few decades, some of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and mathema

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Lenny Susskind interviewed by Graham Farmelo

'Black holes have become one of the liveliest areas of theoretical research. By thinking about these cosmic objects, using quantum theory and relativity, theorists are cl

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Ruth Britto interviewed by Graham Farmelo

One of the hottest topics in modern physics is trying to understand the scattering of fundamental particles with neither shape nor size - one step up from nothingness. Am

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Michael Duff interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Graham’s guest in this edition is the membrane pioneer Michael Duff. Soon after the Second String Theory Revolution, which began in 1995, membranes became widely acknowle

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Lance Dixon interviewed by Graham Farmelo

‘The most perfect microscopic structures in the known universe’ – that is the exquisite description of sub-nuclear scattering amplitudes given by theorist Lance Dixon, ba

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Robbert Dijkgraaf interviewed by Graham Farmelo

The Dutchman Robbert Dijkgraaf is a rarity – not only is he a top-class mathematical physicist, he is also one of the world’s finest science communicators. In this bracin

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Greg Moore interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Greg Moore. Physics and mathematics seem to be in ‘pre-established harmony’, a phrase that has long been popular with p

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Freeman Dyson interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Freeman Dyson. Freeman Dyson talks about his being both a theoretical physicist and a mathematician, the troubled relat

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Michela Massimi interviewed by Graham Farmelo

What do philosophers of physics do, and what light might they shed on the work of today’s physicists and astronomers? Michela Massimi, a distinguished philosopher of scie

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Juan Maldacena interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Juan Maldacena. Juan Maldacena has been described as the first great theoretician of the twenty-first century. In a ser

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Roger Penrose interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Sir Roger Penrose. Sir Roger Penrose, a hybrid mathematician-cosmologist, is one of the most accomplished scientific th

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: Michael Green interviewed by Graham Farmelo

Science writer Graham Farmelo in conversation with Michael Green. Michael Green is one of the pioneers of the string framework. In collaboration with the Caltech theorist