I recently watched a talk by Ed Witten where he said that he thought that quantum physics would be useful for number theory eventually, it's cool to see this borne out in the present day.
Here is the talk (Knots and Quantum Theory) at the moment during the Q&A where he was asked about this. http://youtu.be/8nA17Id4JyU?t=45m3s
I recently watched a talk by Ed Witten where he said that he thought that quantum physics would be useful for number theory eventually, it's cool to see this borne out in the present day.
Here is the talk (Knots and Quantum Theory) at the moment during the Q&A where he was asked about this. http://youtu.be/8nA17Id4JyU?t=45m3s