Re: Where do mathematical ideas come from?

"Mathematics Lover" <markdemers15@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 1) einstein "discoverd" brownian motion in 1905. But Batchelier wrote
> it up in a dissertation 25 year prior. Unfortunately, batchelier's
> dissertation was filed away and forgotten ... until einstein secretly
> found it and harvested the gold nugget.

Why did no-one including Batchelier harvest it?

> 2) einstein "discovered" general relativity, but professor riemann
> developed all the mathematics.

Uh what?

> einstein manage to "creatively" re-frame reimann's geometry into a
> story about gravity, and staked claim to all the credit.

Uh what? Most of the mathematical parts he did together with
Grossmann.

> 3) einstein discovered the "photo-electric effect", for which he was
> awarded the nobel prize.

Actually, he _quantified_ it. That's quite a difference to merely
"discovering" it, and interesting for someone who opposed major parts
of quantum theory most of his life. It is somewhat amusing that he
got his Nobel prize for seminal work in it.

> However, some dude in france discovered the photoelectric effect 20
> years prior, but nobody read his paper.

Why would anybody rather read some paper from a patent clerk?
Einstein was nothing more than "some dude" at that time, too.

> 4) Lorentz worked out the theory of transforming coordinate systems
> that left maxwell's equation invariant. Einstein creatively
> re-interpreted Lorentz's system as "special relativity" and got all the
> credit.

Got lucky quite often, this Einstein chap, eh? Why don't you try
digging up a few forgotten papers and build a completely new physical
world view from it if it is so easy, laying basics for completely new
models of quantum effects, time, space, and gravity? Consequences
that not even the original authors of the papers were able to
comprehend?

The best gold digger is not the one unturning the most soil. The best
one is the one that can smell the gold in a heap of quartz.

--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
.

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