From_Branes_to_Brains

The first post in the "From Branes to Brains" series. For the introduction to the series see this post. In this post, I will mostly follow the ideas from the classical book by Polyakov, as well as from this paper by Kleinert. First of all, consider a classical particle with...

When I was a Masters student, I was doing mathematical physics and I was feeling quite lost. I didn’t feel that I was good enough to continue or to outcompete everyone on the path to tenure. Moreover, I wasn’t even as motivated as I used to be – I didn’t...