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Subject: Re: How did Einstein Develop his Field Equations?  When: A. He admitted having little math
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
Reply-To: jjlxa31@xs4all.nl (J. J. Lodder)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:16:21 +0100
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rhertz <hertz778@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:06:47 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> 
> > LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 11:50:23 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >>
> >>> LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> How did Einstein Develop his Field Equations?
> >>>>
> >>>> When:
> >>>> A. He admitted having little math and no ability in non-Euclidean
> >>>> geometry.
> >>>> B. He always relied on someone else to do his math.
> >>>> C. He denied getting it from Hilbert.
> >>>> D. He never said who he got it from.
> >>>>
> >>>> Answer:
> >>>> He stole them from Hilbert.
> >>>
> >>> Hilbert disagreed,
> >>>
> >>> Jan
> >> Here are two other versions of the quote;
> >>
> >> "Every street boy in Gottingen knows as much elliptical geometry as
> >> Einstein. But the equations are his."
> >>
> >>  "Every boy in the streets of Gottingen understands more about
> >> four-dimensional geometry than Einstein. Yet, in spite of that, Einstein
> >> did the work and not the mathematicians." — David Hilbert
> >>
> >> There is only one way to interpret this. That is Hilbert pointing out
> >> that obviously Einstein did not invent the field equations because he
> >> could not.
> >
> > That is your way, and it is obviously wrong.
> > Hilbert chides his fellow mathematicians, and hence himself,
> > for not having found the correct equation of general relativity,
> > despite their superior technical skills.
> > Hilbert goes on to state that:
> > In spite of that it was Einstein who got there.
> >
> > You may guess what Hilbert did next: (see the ref supplied by RH)
> > ====
> > On December 4th, Hilbert even nominated Einstein for election as a
> > corresponding member of the Göttingen Mathematical Society.
> > (So to his own backyard, where all those superior Gottingen
> > mathematicians dwelt. It was the highest honour he could bestow
> > personally)
> > ====
> >
> > Just what you would expect Hilbert to do,
> > if he considered Einstein an incompetent bungler
> > who had just stolen his results.
> >
> > You had better forget about all this.
> > You are wrong about it, period.
> >
> > Jan
> 
> Stop talking idiocies,

[snip abuse, and new irrelevancies]

Do you deny that the text I quoted is in the reference you gave?

Jan