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and it has stimulated a number of major developments in pure mathematics. Because string theory potentially provides a unified description of gravity...

Look up string in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. String or strings may refer to: String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted...

string appears literally in source code, it is known as a string literal or an anonymous string. In formal languages, which are used in mathematical logic...

physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, and various areas of mathematics. He is a professor emeritus in the...

theories has significant mathematical consequences. The Calabi–Yau manifolds used in string theory are of interest in pure mathematics, and mirror symmetry...

In mathematics and computer science, a string metric (also known as a string similarity metric or string distance function) is a metric that measures...

The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (/luːˈkeɪziən/) is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian...

gravity, particle and condensed matter physics, cosmology, and pure mathematics. String theory represents an outgrowth of S-matrix theory, a research program...

more mathematically tractable problems in string theory. Mathematically, branes can be described using the notion of a category. This is a mathematical structure...

outside of string theory, for example in condensed matter physics and parts of pure mathematics. Strings can be either open or closed. A closed string is a...

Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world...

Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that can be considered "discrete" (in a way analogous to discrete variables, having a bijection...

String art or pin and thread art, is characterized by an arrangement of colored thread strung between points to form geometric patterns or representational...

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business,...

String girdling Earth is a mathematical puzzle with a counterintuitive solution. In a version of this puzzle, string is tightly wrapped around the equator...

the area of formal language theory, frequent use is made of a variety of string functions; however, the notation used is different from that used for computer...

feature of string theory and M-theory is that these theories require extra dimensions of spacetime for their mathematical consistency. In string theory,...

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is a 1960 article written by the physicist Eugene Wigner, published in Communication...

Edward (2004). "Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 252 (1–3): 189–258. arXiv:hep-th/0312171...

Lists of mathematics topics cover a variety of topics related to mathematics. Some of these lists link to hundreds of articles; some link only to a few...