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"Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense."
Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

Happy Birthday Lord Kelvin! Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Thomson, an Irish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.

Books by Lord Kelvin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48139

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