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"Sommerfeld was over 70 years old, and retired after 40 years of teaching, when he committed his lectures to paper. He did it with a sense of double obligation: | "Sommerfeld was over 70 years old, and retired after 40 years of teaching, when he committed his lectures to paper. He did it with a sense of double obligation: | ||
- To preserve through a crisis (WW II) the achievements that had carried physics to great triumphs. | - To preserve through a crisis (WW II) the achievements that had carried physics to great triumphs. | ||
- | - To bequeath to a younger generation of physicists the valuable analytic tools that had been shaped on the classical problems. | + | - To bequeath to a younger generation of physicists the valuable analytic tools that had been shaped on the classical problems." |
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