Is there any point in an aspiring theoretical physicist doing pure math topics such as analysis? (Assuming that he would not be doing them out of pure interest.)
Pure maths vs applied
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12Shouldn't you be asking this on the physics site? – 2011-09-23
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0Thanks, Mariano, I just thought that users on the physics site may not have done pure maths modules. (If they went through the pure physics route). Whereas users here seem to consist of more applied mathematicians and/or theoretical physicists who have gone through the maths route, and are more familiar with the pure modules. – 2011-09-23
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6From what I know of physics, analysis is pretty much its bread-and-butter. If you were asking about number theory or formal logic it would _possibly_ be a different matter. Much of what goes on in theoretical physics these days also seems to be intimately connected with advanced algebra and representation theory, even such discrete-looking topics as finite groups or category theory. – 2011-09-23