Phys374
Intermediate Theoretical Methods
(Conversational Mathematics
for
Physics Students)
Prof. Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland, Spring 2008
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"Philosophy
is written in this grand book,
the universe, which stands
continually
open to our gaze. But the book cannot be
understood unless
one first learns to
comprehend the language and read the
characters in
which it is written. It is
written in the language of mathematics,
and
its characters are triangles, circles,
and other geometric figures
without which
it is humanly impossible to understand
a single word of
it; without these one is
wandering in a dark labyrinth."
Galileo Galilei,
The Assayer (Il Saggiatore),
1623