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>From: litow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce E Litow)
Subject: Re: Scaled up slug brains
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Followup-To: Einstein as mathematician
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In a recent posting Gordon Banks writes that Einstein's mathematical
abilities were unexcelled. This is a common misconception. Einstein was
a very great physicist but he was not a great mathematician. For an idea
of his limitations see the remarkable correspondence on absolute 
parallelism in differential geometry that he conducted with the mathematician,
Elie Cartan ca. 1930. 


Bruce Litow
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Bruce Litow
Computing Services Division
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