grand unified theory

An area of mathematics research called the Langlands program has been dubbed “a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics” because of the connections it makes between many disparate subfields.

Scientists have many reasons to seek a grand unified theory of nature, but the information paradox is their most specific motivation, and it has guided their way when they have little else to go on.

Each of these bits carries the texture of its antecedents; together they operate under a grand unified theory of if you know, you know.

“When bedrock principles collide,” she once famously cautioned, “they test the limits of categorical obstinacy and expose the flaws and dangers of a Grand Unified Theory that may be neither grand nor unified.”

Edward Frenkel, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, has even dubbed the Langlands program “a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics.”