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Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o... by gjm11 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:02AM (#20634263)
What work in particular? Minkowski did a lot of neat things. (But I'm not sure I'd describe any of the ones I know of as more intuitive than multiplication.)
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Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o... by debatem1 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:37PM (#20637552)
His work on the geometry of numbers. It was like a secret decoder ring for the language of higher math at the time, while being both elegant and tangible. Compare to multiplication, which occasionally still bears strangely shaped fruit for me even today.
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