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How did geometry create modern physics?
Geometry may have its origins thousands of years ago in ancient land surveying, but it has also had a surprising impact on modern physics. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Yang-Hui He explores geometry’s evolution and its future potential through AI.
What began thousands of years ago as a way to measure land and build pyramids was given rigor by Euclid in ancient Greece, became applied to curves and surfaces in the 19th century, and eventually helped Einstein understand the universe. In fact, the very first thing that I ever did as a freshman in Princeton, like literally I dropped off my bags and ran to 112 Mercer Street to find Albert Einstein’s old house, and just went in and asked very boldly and say is this a museum? Or by looking at tables of numbers like Gauss, and gradually that gives you a feeling about the way the world works, and that’s what you’re going to call top-down, intuitive style of math, not building from definitions.
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