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In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
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A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
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