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)

Some of these requests for citations seem rather silly. Isn't it obvious that the Science of Parts and Wholes is related to solving problems by Tearing them up into subproblems? I'm not sure what kind of citation that needs. Keithbowden (talk) 15:22, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Edits
Tidied up the lede section. Added a subsection titled "Method of Tearing". Reworked the Reference section. --BwB (talk) 16:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Revision history is worth digging through
Several editors have made large edits over the past several years, essentially re-writing large parts of the article in the process. It would be worthwhile to go back through and see if anything of value was lost.

It would also be worthwhile to see if the article's point of view was changed without justificaiton. While I'm sure every Wikipedia editor thinks that their own point of view is neutral, when two editors clearly write from a different point of view, the community needs to decide if the change was for the better. Did the article go from "bluntly neutral to whitewashed puffery" or did it go from "unfairly maligning to neutral"? As with any biography, the answer will depend on what the world, as a whole, has already said about this person.

I won't prejudice other editors by including a list of diffs, but when I looked, there were several "single editor runs" of edits where each run added or removed over a thousand characters. These are good places to start. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  04:16, 3 March 2017 (UTC)