September 4, 2016 Sunday
Bedtime Story
Mathematicians and the cosmologists
Today I shall simply be enlisting the names of few men who very early on laid the foundations that would later on come in handy in understanding our cosmos.
I was surprised to discover that in this matter, mathematicians were the trailblazers.
To begin with, I had very little idea what mathematicians do beside teaching hapless bored students in schools.
Until my best friend very slyly and rather insidiously introduced me to some of them in the form of anecdotes, short stories and most often, endless chatter.
It worked!
Even if I remain deplorable in solving mathematical problems, I began to understand and admire their work, specially the most abstract ones which apparently has nothing to do with earthly matters.
That I think is a big step forward.
Via mathematics, I was introduced to new branches of sciences like astronomy, astrophysics and physical cosmology.
There are no distinct borders between these disciplines as by now we are aware that nature does not come in packets.
Only apes like us are good in dividing and classifying things.
The mathematicians:
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire) 1820s
Janos Bolyai (Transylvania, Hapsburg Empire) 1822
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Kazan, Russia) 1823
Bernhard Riemann (Breselenz, Jameln, Kingdom of Hanover) 1853: student of Gauss
Felix Klein (Düsseldorf, Prussia) 1870s
Marcel Grossman (Budapest) 1910s tutored Einstein on differential geometry and tensor calculus
Gregario Ricci-Curbastro (Italy) 1880s
Cosmologists:
Ernst Mach (Moravia, Austrian Empire) 1900s who totally abhorred Newton's idea of absolute space and time
Hendrik Lorentz (Netherlands) 1900s
Willem De Sitter (Netherlands) 1920s
Alexander Friedmann (St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) 1920s
Georges Lemaitre (Belgium) 1920s
The life but more importantly, the work of each one calls for a detailed storytelling.
These are the rare few who have transcended beyond the average organismic behavior of survival, mating, reproduction and gone on to explore the words that only mathematics can describe.
Trust me, words are simply not adequate and analogies bread down in describing nature.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Bernhard Riemann
Famous for Riemann hypothesis - which is a conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and the complex numbers with real part 1/2.
Did u get that?
Bedtime Story
Mathematicians and the cosmologists
Today I shall simply be enlisting the names of few men who very early on laid the foundations that would later on come in handy in understanding our cosmos.
I was surprised to discover that in this matter, mathematicians were the trailblazers.
To begin with, I had very little idea what mathematicians do beside teaching hapless bored students in schools.
Until my best friend very slyly and rather insidiously introduced me to some of them in the form of anecdotes, short stories and most often, endless chatter.
It worked!
Even if I remain deplorable in solving mathematical problems, I began to understand and admire their work, specially the most abstract ones which apparently has nothing to do with earthly matters.
That I think is a big step forward.
Via mathematics, I was introduced to new branches of sciences like astronomy, astrophysics and physical cosmology.
There are no distinct borders between these disciplines as by now we are aware that nature does not come in packets.
Only apes like us are good in dividing and classifying things.
The mathematicians:
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire) 1820s
Janos Bolyai (Transylvania, Hapsburg Empire) 1822
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Kazan, Russia) 1823
Bernhard Riemann (Breselenz, Jameln, Kingdom of Hanover) 1853: student of Gauss
Felix Klein (Düsseldorf, Prussia) 1870s
Marcel Grossman (Budapest) 1910s tutored Einstein on differential geometry and tensor calculus
Gregario Ricci-Curbastro (Italy) 1880s
Cosmologists:
Ernst Mach (Moravia, Austrian Empire) 1900s who totally abhorred Newton's idea of absolute space and time
Hendrik Lorentz (Netherlands) 1900s
Willem De Sitter (Netherlands) 1920s
Alexander Friedmann (St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) 1920s
Georges Lemaitre (Belgium) 1920s
The life but more importantly, the work of each one calls for a detailed storytelling.
These are the rare few who have transcended beyond the average organismic behavior of survival, mating, reproduction and gone on to explore the words that only mathematics can describe.
Trust me, words are simply not adequate and analogies bread down in describing nature.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Bernhard Riemann
Famous for Riemann hypothesis - which is a conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and the complex numbers with real part 1/2.
Did u get that?
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