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I've heard physicist David Tong claim that when physicists discovered quantum mechanics initially, they did not know of matrices. This seems pretty incredible to me, as matrices were known by mathematicians for a long time before that. Also, there are things like the inertia tensor, which is described using a matrix (in his book). It just seems very strange if that were true.
u/Beneficial-Peak-6765 — 8 days ago