In 1976, a quantum anomaly appeared in the physics community, which stumped everyone and no one could solve it. Unexpectedly, a 46-year-old mathematician crossed the physics world, relying on his own theory of fame, single-handedly solved this puzzle, and became a god in a war.
This mathematician is the famous mathematical genius Michael Atiyah.
If there is one sentence to describe Atiyah, it is "no one in physics knows mathematics better than him, and no one in mathematics knows physics better than him!" ”
It's just so strong and domineering!
The last person who dared to be so arrogant was the great Hilbert.
Unlike Hilbert, Michael Atiyah entered physics very late. Atiya has always been a top mathematician, almost a god-like existence in the mathematical world, attracting everyone's attention and watching the world.
But, at the age of 46, Atiyah idly glanced at the physics world.
It was at this glance that he fell into it and was instantly attracted by the normative theory of subatomic physics.
It's not that this normative theory is so bullish, but this normative theory is too bad. The reason why it is not bull B is not that there is a problem with the theory itself, but that physicists have only initially mastered these mathematical frameworks, as if they have a dragon-slaying sword but cannot be unsheathed, how much they have to hold back, how much they have to hold back.
At that time, a group of genius physicists at MIT were using gauge theory to study uncharged musons, but they were slow to come up with an answer.
The reason is simple - the root is the fundamental difference between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
The solution is actually very simple - just two words, math!
Only, to put it ugly, after Dirac, how many physicists really understand mathematics?
At this time, Atiya came out of nowhere and landed in front of the physics bigwigs of MIT.
He did only one thing, and that was to have meetings.
The conference was small, attended by only a few physicists, but all of them were the best physics geniuses in the world.
These people listened quietly to Atiyah blowing math for 2 hours as if listening to an oracle.
Of course, most of the content, they did not understand, but they heard a crucial theory, that is, the famous "Atiyah-Singer theorem", which is also the strongest achievement of Atiyah's life.
Unexpectedly, just a few months later, these physicists proved that the "quantum anomaly problem" of mesons can be perfectly explained using the Atiyah-Singer theorem.
At this moment, Atiyah, as a mathematician, fought a god in the physics world, domineering to the extreme.
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