[SOC] Not in the league

[Norm Lee]

OK, how about Thompson or Bertrand  Russell (The 4th Earl of - famous 
for his Principia Mathematica) or even Isaac Newton, also famous for his 
Principia Mathematica, then there is Maxwell Clarke or Max Planck or 
Douglas Turing (the Pommy bloke from Cambridge Uni who broke the Enigma 
Codes during WW2). Never knew I knew so many mathematicians, 
particularly as I'm dyscalculeic (look it up, it's not nice - God only 
knows how I passed my ham licence exams.....)
Kind regards
Norm VK5GI

Charles Harpole wrote:
> Einstein is out.... he delayed his final field theory due to his difficulty with math.  Another guy helped him.
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> The first twin asked me last Friday evening and I mentioned the usual 
>> names off the top of my head. Euclid, Archimedes etc. etc.
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>> She countered that everyone wanted to do Einstein.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> What say ye geniuses? Who, given the assignment, would seriously select 
>> Einstein among the prominent mathematicians of the world.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks! :)
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>> Ian C. Purdie - VK2TIP
>> http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/
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