Invisible wrote:
> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
> Hooke's law, would it?

	And given that Hooke's first name was Robert, you'd be well justified
to refer to it as Bob's Law.

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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
>> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
>> Hooke's law, would it?
> 
> 	And given that Hooke's first name was Robert, you'd be well justified
> to refer to it as Bob's Law.

Heh. How random is that?

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On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:03:28 -0200, nemesis wrote:

>> They (3%) must have been confusing him with Handel who lived in England
>> and composed Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal
>> Fireworks there.
> 
> "Ludwig" by itself should be enough.

Well, for a guess perhaps, but I could see it also being popular in 
Austria.  And of course in the modern world (especially), the name isn't 
necessarily a good indicator - I just had a call with someone with the 
surname Assaf.  Any guesses as to what country code I dialed?  The answer 
surprised me....

Jim

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On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:20:14 -0600, Mueen Nawaz wrote:

> Invisible wrote:
>> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
>> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
>> Hooke's law, would it?
> 
> 	And given that Hooke's first name was Robert, you'd be well 
justified
> to refer to it as Bob's Law.

I prefer Cole's Law myself. :-)

Jim

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:20:14 -0600, Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>
> > Invisible wrote:
> >> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
> >> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
> >> Hooke's law, would it?
> >
> >  And given that Hooke's first name was Robert, you'd be well
> justified
> > to refer to it as Bob's Law.
>
> I prefer Cole's Law myself. :-)
>
> Jim

Groan!

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On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:38:42 -0500, Stephen wrote:

>> I prefer Cole's Law myself. :-)
>>
>> Jim
> 
> Groan!

I couldn't help myself. :-)  Or rather, I could, if there was a container 
in the fridge.

Jim

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>>> I prefer Cole's Law myself. :-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>> Groan!
> 
> I couldn't help myself. :-)  Or rather, I could, if there was a container 
> in the fridge.

Ignorance is bliss...

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On 04-Nov-08 16:03, nemesis wrote:
> Stephen escreveu:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> scott wrote:
>>>>> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
>>>>> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
>>>>> Hooke's law, would it?
>>>> Hooke was English.
>>> ...really?
>>
>> As was Lord Kelvin, Napier, Stephen Hawkins (Well British)
>>
>>
>>> Heh. You learn something every day.
>>>
>>> Did you see the episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? where 3% of
>>> the audience thought that "Ludwig van Beethoven" was English? :-D (I
>>> have no idea what his nationallity actually was, but I'm fairly sure
>>> it's not a typical English name...)
>>>
>>
>> German! O_O
>>
>> They (3%) must have been confusing him with Handel who lived in 
>> England and
>> composed Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks 
>> there.
> 
> "Ludwig" by itself should be enough. :)

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On 04-Nov-08 11:27, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> Is there any specific reason why all great mathematicians were foreign?
>>
>> Because 99% of the people in the world are foreign for you?
> 
> Mmm. Yes, that must be it...
> 
>> I can think of Newton, Babbage, Turing and Darwin off the top of my 
>> head as very famous British scientists/mathematicians, I am sure there 
>> are many many more.
> 
> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or 
> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and 
> Hooke's law, would it?

First names of van der waals were: Johannes Diderik so if they followed 
your convention it might have been Johan's law (or Jan's or Diderik or 
Rik, I don't know what his family called him). Aside I studied in 
Amsterdam and had lectures in the room they built for him there. A 
theater with the names of famous physicist in friezes (if that is the 
correct term) on the wall. Like we have the famous composers in the 
Concertgebouw.
They also had the foundation of the workshop there separately from the 
rest of the foundations. Just to make sure they did not ruin the 
experiments.

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On 04-Nov-08 11:27, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> Is there any specific reason why all great mathematicians were foreign?
>>
>> Because 99% of the people in the world are foreign for you?
> 
> Mmm. Yes, that must be it...
> 
>> I can think of Newton, Babbage, Turing and Darwin off the top of my 
>> head as very famous British scientists/mathematicians, I am sure there 
>> are many many more.
> 
> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or 
> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and 
> Hooke's law, would it?

Once someone remarked that in French all laws are names after the first 
French person to have discovered the law. Sometimes decades after it was 
discovered in the rest of the world. (If you think that is silly, think 
about things like Victoria Falls).

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