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This lost credibility as soon as it cited Einstein as an example of one of these "lone geniuses". He was anything but. He wasn't lone, and he wasn't a genius.
by asymptosis 5y ago
This lost credibility as soon as it cited Einstein as an example of one of these "lone geniuses". He was anything but. He wasn't lone, and he wasn't a genius.
He happened to be born at a time and place in history when physics was rapidly going through change anyway. He was a correspondent of Caratheodory, whose mathematical work was essential for the development of general relativity. He was nearly beaten to the punch by Hilbert.
Einstein was smart, but lots of people in the world are smart without being called "lone geniuses".
- derbOac 5y agoStigler's Law of Eponomy is relevant to this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
- asymptosis 5y agoReminds me of Saunt Lora's Proposition from Neal Stephenson's Anathem :D
- rogersbacon17 5y agoAuthor here - you may enjoy another post of mine that mentions this - https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-laws-part-3-miscellaneous https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-laws-part-3-mis... and https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-laws-part-i-laws-of-the https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-laws-part-i-law...