tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post9017493874793309151..comments2024-03-25T09:11:17.877-07:00Comments on The Curious Wavefunction: John Nash's work makes as good a case as any for the value of curiosity-driven researchWavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-53244427920282978162015-06-02T05:16:32.794-07:002015-06-02T05:16:32.794-07:00@ Wavefunction-succinct write up! I am not a math...@ Wavefunction-succinct write up! I am not a mathematician (rather poor one at that) but can you or anyone else provide me with real time experience of "Nash equilibrium" at play with some nice illustration or example? Thanks Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-4777836706555946742015-05-29T04:10:56.297-07:002015-05-29T04:10:56.297-07:00Good point! Agree there has to be some balance, bu...Good point! Agree there has to be some balance, but it's always tricky to draw the line...the other problem is with things like string theory where people are working in a world far removed from experiment.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-46527843000635667972015-05-28T18:48:28.041-07:002015-05-28T18:48:28.041-07:00Thanks for a great article; however, I think in pu...Thanks for a great article; however, I think in pure maths these days the "curiosity-driven research" has gone too far, at least speaking from my own grad school experience. You have heaps of people working on problems that are so technical and remote that conversation is often dificult even between students of the same advisor. One thinks with great wonder that people like Fourier may have worked on curiosity-driven work, but were also closely embedded with the world, travelled to Egypt with Napoleon and all that. Maths these days has become too insular in its "freedom to pick its own problems", IMHO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com