Re: O'Barr>Reality!

"Thomas Heger" <hballo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> "Thomas Heger" <hballo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>>>>>>>> Produce some mathematics then and I'll rip you to shreds. Until you 
>>>>>>>> do
>>>>>>>> you are running off at the mouth with a load of verbal diarrhea 
>>>>>>>> that impresses
>>>>>>>> nobody.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Androcles
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I promised you once to do so. Now I'm still fighting with MathLab 
>>>>>>> and reading books.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thomas Heger
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Read this book first:
>>>>>>  http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Galileo.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and then this one.
>>>>>>  http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Androcles.
>>>>>
>>>>> Newton is interesting, but somehow I prefer german for longish texts
>>>>
>>>> Ah... So you are prejudiced. <shrug>
>>>> That's not good in any scientist.
>>>> Androcles.
>>>>
>>> prejudiced??
>>>
>>> What do you mean with that?
>>> I just prefer german, because it's much easyer for me to read.
>>
>> I means exactly what the dictionary says
>> prejudiced
>> Function: adjective
>> : resulting from or having a prejudice or bias for or especially against.
>>
>>>  I looked at both websites, found them interesting and put 'find a copy 
>>> of principiae in german' on my to do list.
>>
>> Anglo-Americans and British do take the trouble to translate from 
>> Deutsch,
>> it's up to Germans to translate English texts, especially important ones.
>>
>>  http://www.fln.vcu.edu/goethe/zauber_dual.html
>>
>>
>> http://www.physics.utoledo.edu/~ljc/speciaal.html  (no equations)
>> http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
>>
>> ARBEIT MACHT FRIE.
>>
>> Androcles.
>>
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> you mean,'arbeit macht frei' what was a cynic motto of nazi concentration 
> camps.

Sure.  Work makes you free. I know it does, I'm retired after a lifetime
of work and now I'm free. You've still work to do. Translate Principia
into German. You'll learn and you'll be giving a gift to your fellows
by publishing it as a web page. Your English is good (if not perfect),
a talent you should not be wasting.

> Please don't use it!

Why not? It's true.


> I shurely don't have to emphasize, that I 'm nothing like that.

Guilt by association isn't something I approve of. Any inference
is yours. "Arbeit macht frei" are three simple words that were
a lie in Auschwitz but are in general true.

> germans take the trouble to read and write in english. not allways 
> perfect, but usenet gives some training.

Good. Start translating, you don't have a Deutsche version of Newton's
Principia. Either search or create one. You'll learn more by creating one.

Androcles.


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