Shlomo Sternberg (1936–2024) was a towering figure at Harvard University, but unlike many pure mathematicians, he maintained a deep, almost romantic relationship with classical physics. His seminal work, Group Theory and Physics (1994), remains a bible for theoretical physicists who hate sloppy notation.
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