/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9377432
Based Lurie. Pls give him an Abel prize.
>>9377473
>do you think it's too much
Yes, and frankly it'd probably be too much for your supervisor too unless he's doing string theory, and even then he'd only be familiar with specific examples of TQFT like Chern-Simons, WZW or topological theta models in the best scenario. In any other cases he'll either direct you to other profs or (implicitly) tell you to stop worrying about things (specifically the categorical definition of a TQFT a la Atiyah) you won't ever use in physics.
Mathematical physics is actually part of mathematics, so you'd be better off asking math faculties about TQFT than physics faculties. The examples above are already rich enough for you to spend years studying if you want to continue to be a physicist.
This is not to say that you shouldn't pursue your interests, but I'm just laying out what I've went through to bare so that you won't waste 2 years for your masters like me doing something you're not as interested in.

>>8626856
>you
>a massive faggot who comes into drive by threads with snarky, useless comments so you can pat yourself on the back for being so much smarter than everyone
>knowing anything about anything at all

>>8252582
>so terence tao
>assuming he's a genius