Re: What exactly is wrong with Huygens' principle in two dimensions?
- From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:36:30 +0000 (UTC)
In article <emmglk$ob1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Baez wrote:
By the way - the Dutch write "Huyghens", but NASA has taken to
writing "Huygens".
Well, not quite. In the 17th century Dutch didn't have a fixed
spelling, so you could have found both forms. But nowadays the Dutch
use Huygens. For instance there is the Huygens institute of the Royal
Dutch Acadamy of Sciences, honoring both Christiaan and Constantijn
Huygens, see
http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=56&lang=en
There are also streets in Amsterdam named after Constantijn Huygens,
the poet, http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerste_Constantijn_Huygensstraat_(Amsterdam).
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Maarten Bergvelt
Mathematics Department, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801
Ph: 217-333-6326 email: bergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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