Frases de Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs fue un físico estadounidense que contribuyó de forma destacada a la fundación teórica de la termodinámica. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. febrero 1839 – 28. abril 1903
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Frases célebres de Josiah Willard Gibbs

“Las Matemáticas son un lenguaje.”

En una reunión de profesores de Yale, durante una discusión sobre los requisitos lingüísticos en el plan de estudios de pregrado.
Fuente: Citado en M. Rukeyser: Willard Gibbs, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 280.

“Si he tenido algún éxito en la física matemática, esto es, según creo, porque he sido capaz de esquivar las dificultades matemáticas.”

Fuente: Citado por C. S. Hastings en "Memoria biográfica de Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1839-1903", National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. VI, (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1909), pág. 390. Memoria completa http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/jgibbs.pdf

“Uno de los principales objetos de la investigación en mi departamento de conocimiento es encontrar el punto de vista desde el cual el sujeto aparece en su mayor simplicidad.”

Fuente: De la carta de Gibbs aceptando la Medalla Rumford (1881). Citado en: A. L. Mackay, Diccionario de Citas Científicas (Londres, 1994).

“Un matemático puede decir lo que quiera, pero un físico debe estar al menos parcialmente, en su sano juicio.”

Fuente: Citado en: R. B. Lindsay, "Sobre la relación entre Matemáticas y Física," Scientific Monthly nº 59, 456 (diciembre de 1944)

Josiah Willard Gibbs: Frases en inglés

“A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.”

Quoted in R. B. Lindsay, "On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics," Scientific Monthly 59, 456 (Dec. 1944)
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“One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.”

From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).

“Mathematics is a language.”

At a Yale faculty meeting, during a discussion of language requirements in the undergraduate curriculum. Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 280.
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“If I have had any success in mathematical physics, it is, I think, because I have been able to dodge mathematical difficulties.”

Quoted by C. S. Hastings in "Biographical Memoir of Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839-1903," National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. VI (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1909), p. 390. Complete memoir http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/jgibbs.pdf
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“His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.”

From Gibbs's obituary for Rudolf Clausius (1889). See The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, vol. 2 (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), p. 267. Complete volume http://www.archive.org/details/collectedworksj00longgoog

“The whole is simpler than its parts.”

Quoted by Irving Fisher in "The Applications of Mathematics to the Social Sciences," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 36, 225-243 (1930). Full article http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183493954
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“Anyone having these desires will make these researches.”

About his own scientific work. Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 431.
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“I wish to know systems.”

Quoted in Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942), p. 4.
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