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One takes care at the beginning to be sure that "the mathematics is appropriate for the physics," that is, that everything in the mathematics has physical meaning and that all of the physics one wishes to talk about is describable in terms of the mathematics.

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It takes a certain amount of effort to learn mathematics...

Robert Geroch

To answer a physical question, one first translates that question into various objects... in the mathematics, with various properties describing the physical setup. Then one manipulates these objects within the mathematics and translates results back into the physical terms. (These "translations" ultimately become automatic.)

Robert Geroch

Robert Geroch

Robert Geroch

Born: June 1, 1942 (age 83)

Bio: Robert Geroch is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theory in mathematics and physics. He was the Ph.D.

Known for:

General relativity from A to B (1978)
Mathematical physics (1985)
Perspectives in Computation (2009)
General Relativity: 1972 Lecture Notes (2013)

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