User talk:Ran.adini

Recent edit to Finite element method
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Finite element method, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 09:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding the sources. The Ray Clough / Ed Wilson history shows that Adini contributed and did a PhD in the field, but it also shows that many other graduate students were also involved and did significant work. Consequently, I removed your addition because it was singling out just one of those students. Glrx (talk) 04:31, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi,

All the sources point out that Clough's two graduate students - Ari Adini and Ed Wilson, who shared an office at Berkeley - played pivotal parts in developing the finite element analysis method. Ari Adini even has a physical element named after him - the Adini Element, another testament to his contribution in this field. The articles also point out that Adini was the first to make Infinite Element computation using the matrix algebra method, and that the results of his (Adini) computation were used by Clough to present the method for the first time ever. Therefore, I think it's appropriate that it will be noted that Clough, Adini and Wilson played the major role in developing the method at Berkeley, and not Clough by himself.

I should also note that while Wilson stayed in the academia, Adini left to implement his knowledge in the private sector - for many years he worked for leading Israeli defense companies and was responsible for groundbreaking inventions in the fields of fortified shelters as well as other classified projects (in which he used the method), and later moved to NY and handled large municipal engineering projects while working in a NY engineering firm (he died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 64). I feel that he didn't get the recognition he deserved - after all, and this is the most important point - all the articles I read about the work done at Berkeley SPECIFICALLY MENTION HIM  - Ari Adini- and describe HIS role in respect to groundbreaking advancement in the method, and note that it was his computations which were used in the first ever paper presented by Clough, a presentation in which the term Infinite Element was coined! If Adini's work and computations made up the first ever paper presented about the Inifinte Element Method, wouldn't it be fair to give him recodnition for that?

I think at least Wikipedia, being a democratic source of knowledge and historical information, should be the one to give him that recognition! Big text

Sincerely, Ran