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...Schrodinger [TIME, Feb. 10] needs a swift kick in the pants. The cut [Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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