Living Proof: Céline Broeckaert and Frank Verstraete - Maths on the Move

"I have learnt that even if you are not a master in mathematics and science you are still able to grasp the essence." This is Céline Broeckaert talking, believe it or not, about the famously difficult theory of quantum mechanics. Céline knows what she's talking about. She's not a physicist, in fact she's a Romance languages scholar, author and playwright. Yet she's written a book about quantum mechanics together with her physicist husband Frank Verstraete, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge. The book is called <a href='https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/frank-verstraete/why-nobody-understands-quantum-physics/9781035065844'>Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics - and everyone needs to know something about it.</a> And it's good timing: quantum mechanics <a href='https://plus.maths.org/content/happy-birthday-quantum-mechanics'>celebrates its 100th birthday this year</a>. In this episode of Living P...