It was about the core idea that I'm about to discuss: that our physical world is a giant mathematical object. (discovermagazine.com)
These minute dimensions have to be «compactified» in a specific way to reproduce the physics we observe, and Strominger and his colleagues determined what that scrunched - up shape had to be: a six - dimensional mathematical object known as a Calabi - Yau space. (discovermagazine.com)
Gödel was at least a weak Platonist — he considered mathematical objects to be real and his research therefore to be empirical. (firstthings.com)