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So smart at physics, yet he never figured out LaTeX.

• cupcake-unicorn 13y ago
  Haha, wow, I found myself having that kneejerk reaction as well. "Gosh, this looks so unprofessional, like a paper from middle school..."
  • RyanZAG 13y ago
    It's from a time when academics (physics at least) was less interested in appearance and more interested in results. It's why there were so many breakthroughs. Today that has shifted with physics being more of a fashion contest to get funding.
    • bnegreve 13y ago
      This may be true but this is surely a bad example: Dirac's thesis is about Quantum Mechanics which is also one of the most fashioned research topics these days. So it's either a "result" or just a "fashioned topic" but it cannot be both at the same time. On a side note, I wouldn't call (La)TeX a fashioned tool that scientists use to impress other people and get funding.
• CalinBalauru 13y ago
  To my kwnolage (helped a lot by wikipedia) LaTex was first written in 1980. This paper dates 1926.