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Originally Posted by sjastro
The Universe doesn't have a physical centre for the reasons I gave in my previous post. Neither does the Universe have an edge, the implications for that would be expansion into existing space. In other words metric expansion of space wouldn't occur and we wouldn't be able to explain Hubble's Law or the mechanism of cosmological redshift.
These guys worked in the field of pure mathematics. Pure mathematicians consider themselves artists, and probably had all the attributes of artistic temperment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty
Not surprising some of them went the way they did.
Others went in more spectacular ways.
This kid died at the age of twenty, his ideas in mathematics were so advanced they were used in physics 120 years after his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois
Regards
Steven |
I don't know too many pure mathematicians who consider themselves artists !!
Re: Use of Galois fields (ie. finite field arithmetic) in physics ? Where ?
We use these in the design of error control codes - our CD players would not work without them !!
Jeremy