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Reminds me of the Einstein vs Edison story about Einstein not knowing the speed of sound when he tried the employee test that Edison had developed. I read a nic
by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Reminds me of the Einstein vs Edison story about Einstein not knowing the speed of sound when he tried the employee test that Edison had developed. I read a nice take on that here - http://www.scilogs.com/the_science_talent_project/einstein-vs-edison/ http://www.scilogs.com/the_science_talent_project/einstein-v...
- Someone 13y agoAnother example of the same (or at least something similar) is Alexander Grothendieck. See http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf (start at the last paragraph of page 1) By the way: that text is in the past tense, not because Grothendieck has died, but because he retired from mathematics in a quite abrupt way. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirement_into_reclusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retireme...