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> Lagrange, Gauss, Archimedes, Euler, Riemann 


These guys have caused me an awful lot of headaches in the last couple 
of years!!! :-))

> E.g. his work on determinate equations. Lagrange had shown how
> the roots of such an equation could be extracted by using a second 
> equation
> whose roots were the squares of the differences of the roots of the
> original equation. Sturm gave the final solution. But ... this seems 
> about
> as pure mathematical as you can get to me. Surely, anyone who can do that
> is a mathematician?

Question: is this the kind of stuff one would have to study e.g. in a 
bachelor business degree?
Reason why I ask this:  I had a math professor who made us study all 
these things and I argued that this was a bit "over the top" for 
business studies.
(although it's not a real bachelor, it's called "licence" over here, but 
in the US it's regarded as a bachelor)

I didn't do very well on that exam.

> I am overall intrigued -- and a bit surprised -- by your statement that:
> 'as a side note -- Fourier was not a mathematician'.

I don't think anyone will ever argue with you again on mathematics. :-) 
Not after reading this mail. :-)))

I didn't follow the thread and I'm a bit surprised to see what the 
question "is analog still better" can do to people! :-)))))))

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