Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: What Constitutes a Tortured Derivation or Proof in Mathemati
I'm in the middle of an argument with a physicist. I'm arguing that
section 3 of Einstein's famous paper, On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies [1], is a tortured derivation of the Lorentz transformation and
that the derivation by Professor Rick Field, University of Florida, in
his online lecture notes for Physics 3063, doesn't have that tortured
quality. [2].
Thus, I need a practical definition from a professional mathematician.
What constitutes a tortured derivation or proof in mathematics? Any
help will be sincerely appreciated.
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