> the early translations
> of the Relativity papers outside Europe)
>Outside Europe, meaning translations into English? Or
>other languages too?
umm..other languages i am not that sure, but as i know, it was definitely one of the earliest into english...have to check up which was the first...
on another note, the original (not-pirated ) bangla translation of Hawking's Brief History costs much less than the Bantam edition...
:-)
also, Bose was a 'science in bengali' activist and popularized (along with his students) many of the Bengali scientific terminology in use in today's secondary textbooks...
On 1/30/06, Frank Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> described. ost of the bundle of assumptions I just
> hinted at are post 2nd
> World War vintage.
> they could get to read the Relativity and Quantum
> Mechanics papers in the
> original…
Heisenberg started learning Danish so he could talk to
Bohr. In fact, it was assumed across the globe back
then that you had to know French and German and
possibly a smattering of English to survive in any
academic subject. Latin and in most cases, Greek, were
unavoidable, although Greek was not really regarded as
much more than a necessary evil by most school boys
(and it was mostly boys) at the time.
>
> in fact, in Bose's famous letter to Einstein from
> Dhaka (Bangladesh) he
> mentioned that he knew sufficient German to
> translate Einstein's Relativity
> papers into English*1 but is not that fluent to
> translate his own paper into
> German. Einstein, as is now famously known,
> translated it himself and
> arranged for its publication…
Oh he translated it? I didnt know that bit.
> letter bearing his "classical electrodynamics-free"
> derivation of the
> Plank's Law. Bose and Saha's translation was one of
> the early translations
> of the Relativity papers outside Europe)
Outside Europe, meaning translations into English? Or
other languages too?
-frank
>
>
>
>
> On 1/30/06, Frank Pohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > of luxury that does not impinge favourably upon
> your
> > > professional life.
> > > >>
> > >
> > > wasn't Dirac in the habit of chiding Oppenheimer
> for
> > > 'wasting' his time on
> > > Sanskrit and poetry?
> >
> > Dirac was a very austere character. I would
> hesitate,
> > though, to assume that 1920s and 30s physicists
> > suffered from the same prejudices I just
> described.
> > Most of the bundle of assumptions I just hinted at
> are
> > post 2nd World War vintage.
> >
> > -Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
___________________________________________________________
> > Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC
> calling worldwide with
> > voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - -
> does the frog know it has a latin name?
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - -
>
___________________________________________________________
Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry
--
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
does the frog know it has a latin name?
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
