Talk:Gabriel Kron

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There is a great deal to say here.

I wonder if anyone else is reading this tho....?

Keithbowden 18:01, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Kron was a genius. I don't know why the article says "rediscovered"

though, that makes no sense. It's not really Kron's problem that computer

scientists or whoever don't read his books and papers. It's not like

they have been lost or something.

To think how much effort is being wasted by presenting relativity and other

useless psychedelic fluff as definitive applications of tensor calculus in our

universities, when we should be teaching Kron's methods. A very good

introduction to Kron can be found in Keller's Mathematics

of Modern Engineering vol 2, 1945 starting on p95. The book is

available on Internet Archive. Korkscru (talk) 07:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, they independently discovered it again. "Rediscovered" is correct UK English for this. I don't know if they say it differently in the US. Kron certainly did not consider relativity to be "useless psychedelic fluff". It did in fact lead to the Dirac equation, antimatter and QED which is the basis of modern Physics. :-)) Keithbowden (talk) 17:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)