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Saturday, January 26, 2019

A Funny Letter to the Editor

A letter to the editor of the American Journal of Physics in 1989:


Mermin is both quite a character and quite a good scientist -- I used his textbook on solid state physics, written with Ashcroft, as either an undergraduate or graduate student. (The latter, I think.) He also named the boojum.

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