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

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> Well, one view of a not-disinterested biographer is here:
> 
>     http://physicsweb.org/article/review/16/4/2/1
> 


This quotation accurately expresses my viewpoint on the subject:

The author, however, takes any hint that Einstein did not work in an 
intellectual vacuum as proof positive that he was a plagiarist - as if 
any scientific creation is a purely individual activity. Einstein 
himself acknowledged that the special theory of relativity would soon 
have been formulated without him, while claiming (correctly I believe) 
that, in his absence, the general theory would not have been so easy to 
arrive at. Indeed, Bjerknes has a much harder time producing evidence of 
Einstein's "plagiarism" of the general theory, a topic I shall not discuss.
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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