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“Science is written in the language of mathematics,” proclaimed Galileo in 1623. And over the previous few centuries science has turn out to be ever extra mathematical. Nowadays, mathematics appears to carry whole hegemony, notably within the fields of quantum physics and relativity – the educating of contemporary physics appears to contain deriving an…