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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by pixelpoet on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:23AM (#21418451)
She's one of the few true aliens I regard as up there with von Neumann and Einstein, who have some kind of ridiculous direct line of communication with the fabric of reality.
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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by growlist on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:54AM (#21418772)
You're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.
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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by fmajid on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:50AM (#21419417)
Special Relativity was completely ripped off from Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz (but then they were not German and the physics establishment was dominated by Germans at the time).

Einstein's 1921 Nobel prize pointedly ignores Relativity and was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect, a backhanded slap if there were none.

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