Q5 - The area of mathematics called

[mrudula_2005]

Can you help me understand the reason why C is wrong? Thanks!

[bbirdwell]

(C) is wrong because it's unsupported. Who's to say whether modern physics discoveries would have been IMPOSSIBLE without those advances? Also, on a nit-picky level, we don't have any evidence to suggest that the 19th century mathematical advances were "major."

This is what the argument boils down to:
old math ideas were used much later than they were originated.

this is what (A) says: application long after discovery.

(C) would be a good answer if somewhere the argument said something like "the ONLY reason Einstein found relativity... the ONLY way scientists can explore quantum mechanics."

[EvelynM330]

I'm not entirely convinced by answer A either (I went for C, although I see C has its problems too).

Although gauge field theory has 'only recently been applied to problems in contemporary quantum mechanics' and Differential geometry was investigated 'long before' Einstein used it for Relativities, the question by no means stated that these were the FIRST TIME anyone (perhaps a chemist) ever recognized the application of these theories of mathematics.