[SOC] Not in the league

[Charles Harpole]

Einstein is out.... he delayed his final field theory due to his difficulty with math.  Another guy helped him.

Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 

 




 
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:49 +1100
> From: ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au
> To: fpqrp-l at fpqrp.com; soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SOC] [OT] But important scientific question
> 
> Sorry to bother the list but I've just had a "serious debate" with my 
> twin 12 year old grand-daughters attending first year of High School.
> 
> For there first assignment in mathematics [they're in different classes] 
> they are to select a famous mathematician in history, briefly detail his 
> life and times and expand upon why he is famous in mathematics and a few 
> other things.
> 
> The first twin asked me last Friday evening and I mentioned the usual 
> names off the top of my head. Euclid, Archimedes etc. etc.
> 
> She countered that everyone wanted to do Einstein.
> 
> I suggested that Einstein was a brilliant Physicist and no doubt while 
> obviously well versed in mathematics, that was not for which he was well 
> known [in the strict sense] for.
> 
> This evening the other twin is now wedded to the idea of Einstein and 
> the other one said, the teacher said, Einstein is a well known 
> mathematician.
> 
> What say ye geniuses? Who, given the assignment, would seriously select 
> Einstein among the prominent mathematicians of the world.
> 
> I confess, that in my early days given a similar assignment as Sydney 
> University, I was consumed by a book called "Men in Mathematics" which 
> covered the life and times of prominent mathematicians and I found it a 
> riveting read.
> 
> 
> Thanks! :)
> 
> Ian C. Purdie - VK2TIP
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