Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do They?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> Hilbert was great.  Do you think Einstein really plagiarized him?
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~xtxinc/AEGRBook.htm
> http://christianparty.net/einsteinplagiarist.htm
> 
> This anti-Einstein stuff, though highly questionable, contains some
> kernels of truth (e.g., regarding Lorentz).
> 
>

If I have time today, I will try to give a detailed answer.

I consider Einstein to be one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.  I 
have read some of his original works, and they are truly great.  Briefly, in any 
new inovation, almost no-one comes up with great ideas all by themselves, but 
rather derives many ideas from the culture that one is in.  A few great minds, 
like Einstein and Newton, see the whole thing for what it is, and distill the 
ideas into a few principles.  There is no doubt in my mind that Einstein's truly 
deep understanding of what was really going on (which definitely goes way deeper 
than merely understanding the equations or postulates) advanced science by at 
least several decades.

I only looked at the second web page briefly, but it comes across as extremely 
petty and highly anti-semitic.

Stephen
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