|
Irving Adler
(27 Apr 1913 - )
American mathematician and author who has also written under the pen-name of Robert Irving
|
Science Quotes by Irving Adler (1)
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been observed before, and described the properties it should have. Later experiments proved that this particle really exists and has those properties.
— Irving Adler
Groups in the New Mathematics (1967), 7. Quoted in Rosemary Schmalz, Out of the Mouths of Mathematicians: A Quotation Book for Philomaths (1993), 42.
