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by sherr 285 days ago
The Rhodes book is great on this. Fermi was such a good physicist and a great hands-on engineer. Before electronic calculators or computers: a slide-rule, graphing paper and a notebook. A lot of danger getting the maths wrong! Luckily, Fermi was very good at maths.
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The article quotes extensively from Rhodes, and Groves.
Groves was an administrative genius, probably second only to Eisenhower.