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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Clifford Truesdell |

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Pierre Laplace |

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Pierre Simon de Laplace, french astronomer |