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The task of the theorist is to bring order into the chaos of the phenomena of nature, to invent a language by which a class of these phenomena can be described efficiently and simply.

Walter Noll

I believe the coordinate-free approach fosters the cultivation of intuition, a scarce commodity in relativity because the phenomena this theory is intended to describe are as yet rather remote from our daily experience.

Walter Noll

Walter Noll

Walter Noll

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Born: January 7, 1925

Died: June 6, 2017 (aged 92)

Bio: Walter Noll was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.

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Chemistry and technology of silicones (1968)

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