🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov6.233219.15750@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:

>Yes, here there seems to be a very nice interplay.  It's one of the few
>things that keeps physicists talking to each other, the mathematical
>analogies between condensed matter physics and field theory.  All sorts
>of tricks, like the ones you mention and also renormalization group
>methods, solitons and instantons, etc., show up in both subjects.
>Here's to the unity of nature!

     I enjoy a bit of good interplay, now and again, myself.  But do you
     not think to a certain extent, that this is the result of the existence of
     the most fashionable tool in our toolbox?

                                dale bass

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