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Originally Posted by colby2152  And yes Schrodinger was a physicist... your point? |
Because I am looking for mathematicians. A physicist is not a mathematician. I used to think when I was younger that physicists were good in math, now I changed my view. Most physicists know nothing about math, they know how to manipulate equations and differencial equations and so on, but that is not knowning math. That is simply learning theorems and formulas and using them. They have no idea why these formulas work, where they come from, and much of what they do does not have much mathematical basis to it. So why would you consider such a person to be a mathematician? Did the person contribute anything to math? No.
Yes, there have been physicists that were mathematicians, like Poincare. But I do not think of these people as physicists that were mathematicians, I think of them as mathematicians that knew physics.
Therefore, Schrodinger and the rest of the Soccer Quantum Team should not be associated with math at all.