Humans tend to be better at physics than at mathematics.
After all, when an apple falls from a tree, there are more
people who can catch it—they know physically how the apple
moves—than people who can compute its trajectory from a
differential...
The physicist Abrikosov predicted that in certain
superconductors, one should observe triangular lattices of
vortices, now called Abrikosov lattices. When studying ground
states of Coulomb gases, which is motivated by questions in
approximation...
