[SOC] [OT] But important scientific question

[Jim Reicher]

I'd rank De Cartes more as a philosopher.  But I think people misunderstood him.  At a New Year's Eve party, he was asked about a trayful of hors d'ovoerves (or how ever they're spelled, you get the idea).  The crowd noise was so loud, and he had a sore throat, so rather than yell it out, he wrote down on a napkin "I think they're for 1 AM".

86-13,
W0HV, Jim in Raymore



----- Original Message ----
From: Dana Browne AD5VC <ad5vc at yahoo.com>
To: Second Class Operators' Club <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: Ian C. Purdie <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au>
Sent: Mon, February 15, 2010 8:25:51 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] [OT] But important scientific question

While Einstein was brilliant, he used mathematics (specifically Riemannian geometry) rather than developing it.   Genius physicist, but not a mathematician.

Here's a list:

Euler
Bernoulli
Laplace
deCartes
Euclid
Riemann
Hermite
Lagrange
Newton
Pascal
Gauss
Fibonacci
Leibnitz
Fermat
Hilbert
Fourier


Dana
AD5VC

--- On Mon, 2/15/10, Ian C. Purdie <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au> wrote:

From: Ian C. Purdie <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au>
Subject: [SOC] [OT]  But important scientific question
To: "Flying Pigs" <fpqrp-l at fpqrp.com>, "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 2:41 AM

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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