[Ilugc] [OFFTOPIC] Einstein's mistake
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Tue Sep 30 11:31:41 2008
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Mano wrote:
Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@...> writes:
P. S. Even Newton, Faraday and Einstein were wrong at times!
"On my "epistemic test", Einstein's conceptual mistake is proof that
he copied from Poincare".
More can be found at ckraju.net. Am not a mathematician and do not
understand how solid an argument CKRaju has! Can Prof KHP enlighten
us! Assuming he has the time and inclination :-)
I am not very good at history --- even when the history is of
mathematics. So I cannot judge the value of remarks about who
invented calculus.
Thanks for your response, Professor.
I was going through a math forum where Prof Raju had posted a
requirement for research assistant in history of maths. In that there
was a response from someone from Israel who also claimed there were
references to infinite series (Taylor's I think) in hebrew texts as
early as 13th century AD.
After reading Raju's book I think there is truth in his theory that
Greece is the fountain of all of modern science (and all of
civilization) is a fraud committed by the westerners. It is
unbelievable that while Greece was discovering all these great ideas,
the rest of the world - India, Arabia, China - which were older than
the Greek civilization by a few thousand years were completely
idealess.
It is sad that our present political parties are little interested in
supporting research in these issues - issues which can truly
re-establish our glory - than on issues like the existence of Ram et
al a lakh and fifty thousand years ago, that he built a bridge across
Sethu etc!!!
While reading Raju's book I was particularly pleased at his debunking
the SAS postulate and its siblings :-) When these things were taught
at school we all used to wonder why such obvious statements have to be
enshrined as a great, fundamental truths on which all of maths has to
stand. Its nice to know even learned men think so :-)
Another interesting excerpt for that book (am paraphrasing):
When the greek philosophers came up with the theorem that states that
the sum of two sides of a triangle is always greater than the third
side, the epicureans, who always were derisive of the greeks, retorted
that even an ass knows that - place some hay at a distance from the
ass, it will always walk straight to it. It wont go to another point
and turn some degrees to go to the hay :-)
There is no doubt that every "great" scientist has stood on the
shoulders of others.
Which I think was meticulously erased by the westerners so that Greece
can be looked upon as the one giant on whose shoulders all others
stood!
The one big flaw in most Indian schools has been the inability to
criticise and be skeptical about one's teachers.
The one big flaw in most Western schools has been their obsession with
obtaining priority.
Yes. The following is also very intriguing.
http://ckraju.net/atiyah/atiyahcase.html
regds,
mano
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