That doesn’t seem so for mathematics, physics, chemistry...the hard sciences in general. It may be an ornament to one’s education to read Euclid, Newton, and Einstein, but it is not necessary. The books that endure in these fields are the exceptionally good textbooks rather than the original works.
That doesn’t seem so for mathematics, physics, chemistry...the hard sciences in general. It may be an ornament to one’s education to read Euclid, Newton, and Einstein, but it is not necessary. The books that endure in these fields are the exceptionally good textbooks rather than the original works.