Re: JSH: Sweep likely

From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:35:00 +0100

David Bandel wrote:

> Robin Chapman <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:<cd0r0p$8s7$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>...
>> David Bandel wrote:
>>
>> > "Van Jacques" <calccurve-test23@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> >> Do we have any Guass's or Einsteins' though?
>> >>
>> >> Van
>> >
>> > Witten?
>>
>> Yes, we have a Witten, but have we any Gausses or Einsteins?
>
> I can only assume you're asking if we have any prominent
> mathematicians or physicists that go by the exact name Gauss or
> Einstein to which I would say "I don't know."

It's a rhetorical question. I was saying that Witten was a Witten,
and not a Gauss or Einstein (I was also making the secondary point
that descibing Witten as a Gauss or an Einstein does no service
to any of them).

> If you're not actually
> an idiot however you'd see that I am implying that Witten is very
> widely regarded as the Einstein of our day.

And I thought that Witten was widely regarded as the Witten of his day.
And I think that people who describe X as the Y of our day are actually
the idiots of our day.

> If you disagree you have
> missed a lot of theoretical physics. How many TOP theoretical
> physicists have also won the field's medal? He's far ahead of his

Fields medal (capital F, named after a man called Fields).

> time. If string theory is a bit of 21st century mathematics that fell
> into the late 20th century then he is a 21st century
> mathematician/physicist that fell into the late 20th century. If you
> disagree,

And I thought string theory was a piece of latish 20th century physics
that was now falling out of fashion, but I admit, I neither know
nor care much for physics, so I may be wrong.

> that's lovely but you can stop restating your question since
> I just answered it with my opinion which won't change no matter how
> many times you ask.

I don't give a toss about your opinion. 

-- 
Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html
"Lacan, Jacques, 79, 91-92; mistakes his penis for a square root, 88-9"
Francis Wheen, _How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World_

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