Re: EINSTEIN AND MATHEMATICA? WHAT WOULD IT MEAN?
From: T.Telliskivi (maria.08.6689847_at_telia.com)
Date: 06/30/04
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:37:08 GMT
Your Q: what difference would it have
made if the software program mathematica had been
around during his lifetime?
Answers:
1. Then he would use the Einstein tensor notations :-).
2. The symbolic program developers are trying to create routines
that give us as much symbolic results in hand as possible.
There are many different possibilities to implement it and hopefully
someone will find very radical methods to simplify the procedures.
Einstein would never do this but he would certainly use those
possibilities, probably taking up his time for learning and loose his
effectivity.
In his work he was a outstanding genius but today we have much more
people working on it. His time (twenties) was helping him in many ways -
he could devote himself solely for thinking his thoughts only.
Today's scientists have too much administration to work effectively.
Tanel Telliskivi
"barb28" <barb28@rock.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:9a3d5e23.0406292032.530ceed7@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
> I have kind of an unusual 'theory' type question
> for everyone.
> I have read that Albert Einstein spent the last
> years of his life, looking for a "unified field
> theory", and of course he also did other amazing
> things in his life with mathematics and physics.
>
> My question is this, what difference would it have
> made if the software program mathematica had been
> around during his lifetime?
>
> I am trying to understand the nature of mathematica
> (and other types of program like this, please correct
> me, but I am under the assumption mathematica is the
> program "everybody" uses, but please correct me if
> I'm wrong!).
>
> I guess I am asking about is mathematica a program that
> helps a person 'conceptually' in actually thinking up
> the 'great idea', or is it more of a computation
> program, and maybe it just saves time once they themselves
> have thought up the 'great idea'.
>
> I am wondering if Einstein would have actually been more
> able to find his Unified Field Theory if he had had
> mathematica and a common pentium computer?
>
> Would someone please comment on these, or any other
> 'what ifs'? I would like to get someone input from everyone.
>
> Please post here in the newsgroup. Thanks!
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