Hilbert said to Einstein:physics is far too complicated to be left to physicists

[RudeBuddha]

My man Hilbert nearly made Einstein insane with a joke

[krischan]

Hilbert solved the puzzle on his own, but he acknowledged that it was all Einstein's idea and that Einstein rightfully deserved the credit. Hilbert knew how to pluck the fruit from the tree planted and grown by Einstein. Hilbert was a gentleman.

[nxbjvud]

David was a legend, but he should not have said that thing to some physicist

[LinusFeynstein]

Actually, the first mathematical publication of the Relativity principle was written by Hilbert. He could easily and fast write down the equations. But the magazine in which he published his work was slower than Einstein.

[viddeshk]

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(Logician)Kurt godel:- Well then, Mathamatics is to complicate to left for mathematicians too.

[sergio]

All Hilbert did was to solve a math problem: he just minimized the action using Euler and Lagrange. Einstein created physics, a new way to look at nature. And Einstein also arrived at the field equations; sure, by a route not as elegant as Hilbert's. But all was in Einstein's reasoning: the spacetime curvature, the physical content causing this curvature and the relation of both. In the past, Minkowsky elegance; after, Hilbert's elegance. It seems the mathematicians are in great debt to our fella

[parameshwarhazra]

Einstein be like: r uh challengin meh?

[walidslimani]

this is the power of math and mathematicians, unlike physics

[fmatos]

Uno de los pocos matemáticos que podía decirle eso a Einstein.

[Nickel]

That's a formal to say : I m stealing your idea

[AshishSingh-]

When you forget about Relationship between someone and their work

[RAHUL-uskd]

And he was wrong. He might have done it first, but was wrong.

[akshaysharma]

And that my friend was a last mathematician who made a mistake

[adlikafli]

Albert Einstein David Hillbert
(1879-1955) (1862-1943)

[giovanniviglietta]

Why do they always have to portray intellectuals like cartoon characters?

[JohnConway-dglc]

I'm sorry, but there really isn't anyway to take that last statement other than an insult.

[Nickel]

That's a formal to say : I m stealing your idea

[Ash-rxwl]

Well the thing is, a modern day mathematician, who has graduated with pure math and has practiced loads of math, if he/she is left on their own, they won't be able to understand physics as good as physicists do. They'll always need physicists to interpret a law or it's large scale implications, because mathematicians are largely bothered about general cases. As Feynman had said, Physicists are bothered about a special case. Difference lies in the functioning of their brains. A mathematician's brain is very manipulative, looking to manipulate and simplify complicated expressions. They're also analytically rigorous. Physicists are much more objective in their way of thinking, and are also very observant people. Einstein observed a simple phenomenon, Electromagnetic Induction, and started to think about STR. So, the point being, Physics IS complicated, but it can't be understood better by pure Mathematicians than Physicists