28 february 2010

without him no Einstein

Leader of ideas in number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics. Claimed to be the first to apply geometry to curved surfaces rather than to the Cartesian Plane, and therefore the thought-father of Cézanne's pears, of Einstein's universe. Jensen's portrait shows him bright-eyed and interested in everything.
Someone else to regret never having met.

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