The success of the 1967 Battelle Rencontres was so much appre
ciated by the participants and organizers of this experimental
set-up that it was soon decided to go on with the experiment.
Mathematicians and physicists had found a very suitable frame to
overcome their natural shyness, to get occasionally interested into
each others' work, to talk 1968 Rencontres have about it, and
eventually to know each other. The been organized with the same
idea in mind, and even somewhat enlarged in the following sense:
the topic chosen - hyperbolic equations and waves - has proved a
cornerstone of physics for more than a century and extends over
most fields of contemporary physics. It follows immediately that
the wide range of physicists concerned could not be represented by
more than a couple of specialists in any single field. Thus, aside
from bridging the gap between mathematicians and physicists, the
1968 Recontres provided a rather unique occasion to plug many intra
disciplinary gaps among physicists. This made the Rencontres quite
unpredictable as to how people would - and could - interact, and
created a very stimulating environ ment for an unprecedented
intellectual venture. From the outside, it may very well look like
a hodge-podge of quite unrelated ideas. But it was much less so at
the level of day-to-day discussions and informal gatherings where
all slowly acquired a comprehensive synthetic view of the subject."
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