idea: sharing scientific cultural references even in a not too serious tone...
rules: a link + a personnal short comment. limited to XXth century (or it would be too long)
wish: many people participating to this here, with many different references.
i begin
Albert Einsteinpersonnnal comment: no need to comment... All has already been said much better than I can do
Stephen Hawkingpersonnal comment: same thing as Einstein... Main difference is a dice's thing and the role of God in the universe <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
Kurt Gödel personnal comment: oops... it take me years to understand the right use of his 3 theorems. None except in the logical order. Philosophers have almost overlooked that fact for some years. And i still have to make understand to some of my students he is not a popstar who has commited suicide some years ago <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
David Hilbertpersonnal comment: He was a sweet dreamer but such a visionnary it is not really hard to forgive him to be definitly wrong! Oned of my greater regret in life is to not have been alive in 1905 when he was in paris... not that i would have been able to make anything with his challenge but... just for being there!!!
Benoît Mandelbrotpersonnal comment: it's so cute, so beautiful... fractal theory is born perfect. Something quite rare in History of science.
To Be Continued....?
