> So I did strike out on my own. A subject called random matrix theory was hot in physics at the time, applied to condensed matter phenomena and to the quantum

> So I did strike out on my own. A subject called random matrix theory was hot in physics at the time, applied to condensed matter phenomena and to the quantum behavior of classically chaotic systems. The relevant math was familiar to me from engineering. I figured I’d just dive in, learn the subject, and come out the other end with a publishable discovery. Did he find something interesting on random matrices? Years ago I was researching random cycles and found a phenomenon of emergent order, that seems related to the universality of random matrices. But I'm just a programmer playing around with numbers. https://web.archive.org/web/20130610074258/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/in-mysterious-pattern-math-and-nature-converge/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130610074258/https://www.simon...