Bob Noyce once described a great scientist like this: “One of the most creative men that I’ve ever known in my life, or hope to. He had a marvellous way of simplifying a problem and getting at the fundamental part of it, cutting away all of the extraneous information and getting a model simple enough to be handled mathematically …
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