Recent theoretical advances continue to uncover profound interconnections between string theory and disparate areas of pure mathematics, notably modular forms, finite groups and vertex operator ...

In the Physical Review Letters paper, the scientists discovered a way to bootstrap these string amplitudes—specifically, constructing them through the creation of mathematical formulas.

How String Theory Solved Math’s Monstrous Moonshine Problem A concept from theoretical physics helped confirm the strange connection between two completely different areas of mathematics ...

It’s perhaps ironic that string theory, notoriously derided as untestable, has given rise to mathematical structures of relevance to measurable physics far from the rarefied realm of strings.

Their ideas have come to be called Kolmogorov Complexity Theory or Algorithmic Information Theory. They posited that a string is as complex as the length of the shortest computer program that can ...

In an attempt to explain just why physicists should pay heed to mathematical deliberations of theorists – and especially those in the string-theory community – the veteran science writer Graham ...

Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force carriers called gluons, would supplant it, but in the deep mathematical bones of the young string theory physicists would ...

String theory is an attempt to unite the two pillars of 20th century physics — quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity — with an overarching framework that can explain all ...

The five main string-theory candidates may all just be pieces of a larger, cohesive whole — and M-theory could bring them together.