In Bratislava yesterday evening, I met Dr. Róbert Gáfrik, who has spearheaded the effort to translate the Upanishads into Slovak.
His passion for Indian history, culture and spirituality is commendable.
@CordasFilip@planet_briefs@Math_files Einstein was still a great thinker and helped distill the more rarefield electromagnetic equations of Maxwell (distilled themselves by Heaviside) into the elegant theories of relativity, famously proven by a solar eclipse. Or something like that.
Albert Einstein once remarked, “You know, Henri, I began by studying mathematics, but eventually turned to physics.”
Henri Poincaré asked, “Why was that?”
Einstein replied, “Because although I could distinguish true statements from false ones, I couldn’t determine which were truly important.”
Poincaré smiled and responded, “That’s quite interesting, Albert. I began with physics, but ultimately chose mathematics.”
Einstein, intrigued, asked, “And why did you make that change?”
Poincaré answered, “Because I couldn’t tell which of the important facts were actually true.”
The exchange captures, with subtle wit, the contrasting philosophies of two of the greatest scientific minds.
The word “algebra” comes from the Arabic word “al-jabr”, which means “reunion of broken parts” or “restoration”. This term was used by the Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in his 9th-century book “Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabala”, which introduced methods for solving equations and laid the foundation for modern algebra. The word “algebra” was later translated into Latin and other languages, and gradually expanded to cover a wider range of mathematical topics and concepts.
Australian politics is shifting towards issue-based campaigning funded by small donors, leaving major parties struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing political environment.
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"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces."