> described. ost of the bundle of assumptions I just > hinted at are post 2nd > World War vintage. > they could get to read the Relativity and Quantum > Mechanics papers in the > originalÂ…
Heisenberg started learning Danish so he could talk to Bohr. In fact, it was assumed across the globe back then that you had to know French and German and possibly a smattering of English to survive in any academic subject. Latin and in most cases, Greek, were unavoidable, although Greek was not really regarded as much more than a necessary evil by most school boys (and it was mostly boys) at the time. > > in fact, in Bose's famous letter to Einstein from > Dhaka (Bangladesh) he > mentioned that he knew sufficient German to > translate Einstein's Relativity > papers into English*1 but is not that fluent to > translate his own paper into > German. Einstein, as is now famously known, > translated it himself and > arranged for its publicationÂ… Oh he translated it? I didnt know that bit. > letter bearing his "classical electrodynamics-free" > derivation of the > Plank's Law. Bose and Saha's translation was one of > the early translations > of the Relativity papers outside Europe) Outside Europe, meaning translations into English? Or other languages too? -frank > > > > > On 1/30/06, Frank Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > of luxury that does not impinge favourably upon > your > > > professional life. > > > >> > > > > > > wasn't Dirac in the habit of chiding Oppenheimer > for > > > 'wasting' his time on > > > Sanskrit and poetry? > > > > Dirac was a very austere character. I would > hesitate, > > though, to assume that 1920s and 30s physicists > > suffered from the same prejudices I just > described. > > Most of the bundle of assumptions I just hinted at > are > > post 2nd World War vintage. > > > > -Frank > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC > calling worldwide with > > voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - > does the frog know it has a latin name? > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - > ___________________________________________________________ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry
