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Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.
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Robert P. Crease
Born:
October 22, 1953
(age 71)
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Robert P. Crease is a philosopher and historian of science.
Known for:
The great equations (2008)
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