[SOC] [OT] But important scientific question

[Mike Besemer (WM4B)]

Now THAT is SOC!

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Mike
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Carl Strode
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:28 AM
> To: Second Class Operators' Club
> Subject: Re: [SOC] [OT] But important scientific question
> 
> The greatest mathematician of all time can be seen in this short video:
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7106559846794044495#
> 
> Carl
> WA7CS
> 
> Ian C. Purdie wrote:
> > 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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