He would spend the next three decades, ending with some equations scribbled while on his deathbed in 1955, stubbornly criticizing what he regarded as the incompleteness of quantum mechanics while attempting to subsume it into a unified field theory.
One woman who has dated fifty-eight men since her divorce, a few years ago, told me that she maintains a chart, both to keep the men straight and to try to discern patterns as though there might be a unified-field theory of why men are dogs.
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The field of decision theory tries to explain these examples of people making seemingly illogical buying decisions.
He had been working in the fashionable mathematical field of chaos theory an explanation in search of a problem when he came across a suitable problem in the form of mountains of data accumulated by various ocean and atmospheric scientists of his acquaintance.
Thus launched an academic career in which Ashraf challenges (and sometimes disproves) popular economic theory with field experiments.
As with so much in the infant field of chronotherapy, theory lags practice.
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But prospect theory, a field of behavioral economics, tells us that people who have no good options tend to be risk-seeking, because the psychological cost of a bad outcome diminishes the fear of a worse outcome.
Bear, an outsider to the field, fretted about how his theory would be received.
Willard Quine's early work was in the field of mathematical logic and set theory, the subject of half a dozen of his 23 books.
Skeptics say the new field has yet to completely upend economic theory and merely has delivered many small findings at the edges of economic theory.
"In every other field of science data is worth more than theory, " he says.
This criticism applies to many believers in evolution who are not actually workers in the field, as well as those who reject the theory.
The theory proposes that a so-called Higgs energy field exists everywhere in the universe.
Fueling this theory is the mystery at the Eugene Island oil field in the Gulf of Mexico.
His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
Andrews can show that it's more than just theory: the two have successfully created an optical field that flipped the usual pressure and started pulling objects toward the light.
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Even before its existence was at last tentatively suggested by an experiment this week, many people had heard of the Higgs boson, the mysterious manifestation of the field that causes matter to have mass, according to a theory minted in 1964.
Dr Ardavan's theory describes how the gyrating star generates an intense magnetic field, which polarises the ionised gas or plasma surrounding it.
In theory the Internet should put small vendors on a level playing field with established giants.
Mr Harsanyi, who shared a Nobel prize in 1994 with two other economists in the same field, John Nash and Reinhard Selten, was happy to acknowledge that game theory had been around in some form for a long time.
It is astonishing to me that, although I had no knowledge of game theory when I was writing my novels and even though the field did not exist at the time.
Other possible causes include hitters muscling themselves up as never before during the off-season, the creation of smaller baseball parks and a general decline in the quality of pitching (every time there is an expansion of the leagues, the theory goes, the pitching talent pool is stretched thin, and batters have a field day, so to speak).
Varadhan, New York University, for his work in probability theory, especially his work on large deviations from expected random behavior which has revolutionized this field of study during the second half of the 20th century, and become a cornerstone of both pure and applied probability.
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"If you go out to the field you can expect to find commanders that have been through this course and understand the doctrine and the theory and the application of counterinsurgency in Iraq, " said Diemer.
The gravitational field between the two black holes was so strong that it had never been possible to test Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in such an extreme situation.
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