Open AccessViews of an Octogenarian on a Path to a Nonagenarian: The Field of General Symmetries and its Applications
Author(s) -
H. D. Doebner
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1612/1/012001
Subject(s) - homogeneous space , field (mathematics) , path (computing) , set (abstract data type) , development (topology) , infinity , sociology , mathematics , theoretical physics , epistemology , computer science , physics , philosophy , pure mathematics , geometry , mathematical analysis , programming language
I am on the path from my eightieth to my ninetieth birthday, or from an octogenarian to a nonagenarian. It is certainly encouraging to have opportunities on this path to talk about personal recollections and my views on my work and activities towards the development of the field—our field—of understanding and applying models in physical and related sciences based on the infinite set of mathematical notions of symmetries in their most general sense and with all their facets. I plan to talk today about the first part of my path in my native city Berlin, followed by the University of Marburg and jointly at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.