Hi Pavel,
I think your email highlights one of the differences between us and one
of the reasons for this discussion:
I am a scientist, not a mathematician - I want to improve
crystallographic methods because people who solve crystal structures
want an answer to a biological or chemical or
Hi Tim
On 29 November 2014 at 10:16, Tim Gruene t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de wrote:
I want to improve
crystallographic methods because people who solve crystal structures
want an answer to a biological or chemical or physical question rather
than because they enjoy watching the realisation of a
Dear Tim,
as you know I avoid making public comments and prefer enjoying the comments
done by others, however this time is hard to resist :-)
I was surprised by your mail : do you mean that mathematicians are NOT
SCIENTISTS ?! Do you mean that they are nasty persons who fight against normal
Dear Ian,
it seems we have drifted a bit from the original thread. Maybe this is a
good point to allow the discussion to settle.
Best regards,
Tim
On 11/29/2014 01:41 PM, Ian Tickle wrote:
Hi Tim
On 29 November 2014 at 10:16, Tim Gruene t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de wrote:
I want to improve
Dear Sasha,
I was taught that 'scientist' was best translated into German as
'Naturwissenschaftler' rather than the general term 'Wissenschaftler'.
Mathematicians were philosophers and e.g. economy belongs maybe to
humanities. I thought this distinction was also made at the Imperial
College were
Dear Tim,
sure - no any problem . It was a nice occasion to talk about our
complementarity (and make a publicity of some excellent old papers) !
With best regards, be well !
Sacha
PS : I am even less English native speaker
De : CCP4 bulletin board
On 11/29/14 07:47, Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV wrote:
Dear Tim,
as you know I avoid making public comments and prefer enjoying the comments
done by others, however this time is hard to resist :-)
I was surprised by your mail : do you mean that mathematicians are NOT SCIENTISTS ?! Do
you mean that
Consider this one: Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. I
think it may have all the relevant terms? I've always liked to think of
scientists more as natural philosophers, although I think there should be
something with a connotation of art in there as well, since we do some of
