From 'Crazy on Tap'
"I've noticed that a lot of the GREAT enigneers that I have worked with seemed to have NO interest in sex. No interest in straight, homo, or bi sex. None. Nothing. rachet
November 23rd, 2008 1:14am
plus the great MATHEMATICIANS, no sex (if you don't count sex in the bathroom with some axioms pinned on the wall) macbook
November 23rd, 2008 1:19am
Richard Feynman. 'nuff said. Aaron
November 23rd, 2008 1:33am
Aaron say more.
November 23rd, 2008 1:35am
Paul Erdős macbook
November 23rd, 2008 1:36am
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The unreasonable (but fortunate) effectiveness of Physics.
While once floundering on a problem, Erwin Schrödinger shacked up in an alpine villa for an extended holiday with “an old girlfriend” and, in the “late erotic outburst” that followed, produced the eponymous equation that would net him the Nobel.
Was she a cat?
Close, AI.
Catty, for sure. We need a pic.
Catty, for sure. We need a pic to go with
i\hbar {\partial\Psi(\mathbf{r} ,\,t) \over \partial t} = \hat H \Psi(\mathbf{r},\,t)
More: In 1944, he wrote What is Life?, which contains a discussion of Negentropy and the concept of a complex molecule with the genetic code for living organisms. According to James D. Watson's memoir, DNA, The Secret of Life, Schrödinger's book gave Watson the inspiration to research the gene, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix structure. Similarly, Francis Crick, in his autobiographical book What Mad Pursuit, described how he was influenced by Schrödinger's speculations about how genetic information might be stored in molecules. Schrödinger stayed in Dublin until retiring in 1955. During this time he remained committed to his particular passion; scandalous involvements with students occurred and he fathered two children by two different Irish women.
All these accolades and babes galore, for solving some stoopid eigenvalue problem?
In 1921, he moved to the University of Zürich. In January 1926, Schrödinger published in the Annalen der Physik the paper "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem" [tr. Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem] on wave mechanics and what is now known as the Schrödinger equation. In this paper he gave a "derivation" of the wave equation for time independent systems, and showed that it gave the correct energy eigenvalues for the hydrogen-like atom. This paper has been universally celebrated as one of the most important achievements of the twentieth century, and created a revolution in quantum mechanics, and indeed of all physics and chemistry. A second paper was submitted just four weeks later that solved the quantum harmonic oscillator, the rigid rotor and the diatomic molecule, and gives a new derivation of the Schrödinger equation. A third paper in May showed the equivalence of his approach to that of Heisenberg and gave the treatment of the Stark effect. A fourth paper in this most remarkable series showed how to treat problems in which the system changes with time, as in scattering problems. These papers were the central achievement of his career and were at once recognized as having great significance by the physics community.
A third paper in May showed the equivalence of his approach to that of Heisenberg [...]
Not so fast. That was von Neumann.
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