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BULLETIN (New Series) OF THE
AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
Volurrle 37, Nurnber 1,Page3 25-38
S 0273-0979(99)00801-0
Article electronically published on December 21, 1999
THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
What is the present state of mathematical physics? What are its problems?
What is its future? Is it about to change its orientation? Will the object and
methods of this science appear in ten years to our immediate successors in the same
light as they appear to us? Or are we to witness a far-reaching transformation?
These are the questions we are forced to face to-day at the outset of our inquiry.
It is easy to ask; difficult to answer. If we felt tempted to hazard a prediction,
we should easily resist this temptation by stopping to think of the nonsense the
most eminent scholars of a hundred years ago would have spoken in answer to the
question of what this science would be in the nineteenth century. They would have
thought themselves bold in their predictions; and after the event how timid we
should have found them! Do not expect of me therefore any kind of prophesy.
But if, like all prudent physicians, I refuse to give a prognosis, still I cannot
deny myself a little diagnosis. Well, then, yes; there are symptoms of a serious
crisis, which would seen1to indicate that we may expect presently a transformation.
However, there is no cause for great anxiety. We are assured that the patient will
1101die, and indeed we 1iia.y hope llial lliis crisis will be salulary, since llie hislory
of the past would seem to insure that. In fact, this crisis is not the first, and in
order to understand it it is well to recall those which have gone before. Allow me
a brief hist
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