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"It is more important to have beauty in the equations of physics than to have them agree with experiments". The great British physicist P. A. M. Dirac held this view. Criticize this statement. Look out for some equations and results in this book which strike you as beautiful.

A

Dirac

B

Maxwell

C

Faraday

D

Raman

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Dirac.
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