What has Poland contributed to the Western civilisation?

What... ?

Kaluga the mathematician who in 1920 described the space of 20 dimensions was polish?His theories were accepted 50 years after.

No idea, but sounds rather more eastern.

At last a topic of substance - let's all discuss Hilbert space.

One relatively famous is Banach.

Banach-Hilbert space.

Or Sobolev spaces. Who is going to open the Quantum Mechanics thread then?

I like quantum mechainics....some of it is hard to get your mind around....but it's very interesting stuff.

It's fascinating. I have a good grounding in the subject but the pace of change in research is mind blowing at the moment. It is difficult to keep up with it.

The first I heard of it, was when reseachers were conducting experiments with subatomic particles, and found that the experiment results could not be duplicated.

When the realization came that each researcher's expectations correlated with the results, there was some degree of freaking out that followed (actual scientific term there "freaking out" because it is quantifiable- insert winking smiley).

The very idea of "mind over matter" must have sent them spinning faster than an electron in an outer shell!

I guess the Particle Physicists are getting excited these days with the Hadron Collider coming on stream in Cern. Now that is a scary subject and way beyond me. My brother in law is big time into particles and loses me before the first course has finished. And to think I used to teach him maths.

I was fascinated in school when learning about atomic particles. The idea that the number and spin of electrons in the outer shell being responsible for colors and other properties of elements was incredible to me. If had had been sharper in mathematics I would have pursued a career in science. :)

There is always this difference between mathematicians who prefer abstract analysis and empirical physicians who are based on experiment results.Now most experiments are conducted in Europe.Americans seem to have dropped the funds.

But Poles are rather good in abstract models.

I would say that the greatest contribution of Germany to civilization is the Bratwurst boy.

Southern, you really do have an interesting sense of humour!

I have noticed that americans like it.You have to be american.

And Bratwurst boy was funny.When he said that Lederhosen are popular in Germany but eating a man is not so common.Sometimes Germans rock.

10 points for Southern :)

Your humor is very dry and subtle. But I'm glad you have it. :)

Thank you.I remember when I was talking with an american girl and she kept on laughing.Now I see why.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Jan III Sobieski. He defeated the Ottomans at Vienna, thus preserving Europe for Christianity. The world, and Europe in particular, would be a very different place today without his contribution.

is christianity a european religion...
did it spread by the sword..

Islam was spread by the carrot.

you like carrots


i thought u had a girlfriend

Hey, relax, we know. Not that there is reason they got anniversary of polish occupation of Kremlin?

You seem confused.You are the muslim adilski.


You thought right.

polish contribution... marie curie... support it

Adilksi are you serious?200.000 Ottomans outside Vienna came according to you to inform Austrians about the civilizing benefits of Islam culture?
Or did they come as tourists to admire Vienna?

i aint got a clue about what your on about..


soemtimes what you read in books or has been passed on cannot be the truth.. there are several views ont he same situation, also one should recognise the context.. forget the past speak of here and now..

carrots.. was up doc???????????

You do not know the whip and the carrot?

[quote=adilski] aint got a clue about what your on about..

It is simple.In 1683 Turks tried to capture Vienna.They started the siege and few days before Vienna would fell,a brand new polish army appeared.

Then sth happened to the Turks.

For the Austrians the turkish army was another attraction that was lost.

In this oil crazed world we live in, how could anyone forget Ignacy Lukasiewicz...?

More Polish contributors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Poles

This is some kinde of provocation. Stay awake.

dont you have anything interesting in your life... ur just obsessed wid nonsense... and ur history is biased furthermore you were not present therefore the situation was not witnessed by yourself therefore you do not actually know if what you read actually happened.... people pass on information for their own motives sometimes.. when you open your eyes to other sources and other sources then you actually think objectively - it is very hard to know exactly what happened at that time... best thing to do is to learn from it... no to war, no to guns, no to violenece, yes to peace, yes to love, yes to humanity

Hemmm....what? Ancient Romans and Greeks were Polish too?


;-)))) nice, degenerative face!!!1


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