Re: Cantorian pseudomathematics

Han de Bruijn wrote:
> If you think that distorting history could only happen in communist
> countries, then you should read this, indeed:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method
>
> Who the hell says that Wikipedia is telling you the truth? Most of
> the content at that page is complete nonsense.

No need to read wikipedia, read any Courant's bio. This is not
something purely on wikipedia.

I know that you can't agree to that because your precious "engineer's
mathematics" was invented by non-engineer. Courant was however
applied, that's why he used FEM numerically. That is why the Courant
institute is for applied mathematics. But FEM came from a pure proof.
You can even get the book complex analysis Courant book (1920's) in
many libraries which is where FEM was introduced. Though don't look
for it under the name FEM, this is 40 years before that name was
invented. It wasn't called FEM even when first applied numerically in
the 40's.

I don't know if wikipedia is giving nonsense (I have only glanced at
the page above), but you sure are blabbering a lot of it.

Jiri

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