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posted by [personal profile] silmaril at 04:23pm on 2014-03-24
The physicists have a somewhat snarky answer to that one, I'm afraid---something about how they end up discovering the math they need at the time they need it if it doesn't exist yet. (See Newton with calculus, or Heisenberg with matrices.)

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