Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Try to beat that Hirsch Index

This is one of those things that, when you first read it, your immediate thought is "this can't be true." Here's John D. Cook quoting historian Clifford Truesdell:
… in a listing of all of the mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation work produced in the 18th century, a full 25% would have been written by Leonard Euler.

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