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December 27th, 2007, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by galactus  Here's a mathematician biography site. See how many you can find you haven't thought of. Indexes of Biographies
BTW, concerning Weyl versus Weil, is one of these pronounced Vale?. I once heard a physics related term,
The Vale tensor dynamic. It was pronounced Vale, but I wasn't sure which one was which as I hadn't heard them pronounced, just written. | That is not the best site to go to. Eventhough the biographies are excellent. However many people who are on that list do not belong to be there. For example, look at Michael Faraday, he know nothing about math yet he is there, why? Because they also include famous scientists on that list also. |
December 27th, 2007, 11:37 PM
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Galileo was not a mathematician. And this is not confusing.
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December 28th, 2007, 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker
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Here are more: von Neumann (Johnny) ...
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Therefore, Schrodinger and the rest of the Soccer Quantum Team should not be associated with math at all.
| But Johnny among his many accomplishments is a member of said football team!
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December 28th, 2007, 04:40 AM
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A couple of others that come to mind (excluding relatives and family [such as the Noethers - Amalie Emmy Noether and her father Max - and of course the already mentioned Bernoulli's]):
Lorenz (Edward Norton) and Lorentz (Hendrik Antoon). And Laurent (also see below).
Laurent (Pierre) and Laurent (Paul Matthieu Hermann).
Poussin (Charles-Jean de la Vallée) and Poisson (Siméon-Denis).
Poncelet (Jean-Victor) and that knight from the Round Table. |
December 28th, 2007, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker 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. | Hmmmmmmm ......... You were pretty happy about Eisenstein and Einstein ......  Quote: |
Originally Posted by CaptainBlack But Johnny among his many accomplishments is a member of said football team | Well, that's a game theory ......   | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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