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• After showing me around the lab, he suggested that we go for a drive through the city and look at some of the ancient buildings. I consented with pleasure, not dreaming that there was any risk involved. Von Karman, an inexperienced driver, drove very fast. I came through unscathed but later heard that he had had several accidents, once even snapped off the toll bar at the frontier between Germany and Holland. About ten years later I again had to ride in a car with him at the wheel. His driving had not improved. this situation was quite dangerous, for now we were not in Aachen but on crowded highway in Los Angeles. Fortunately there was a young American with us, who unceremoniously took over. (查看原文)

  yuebeifan 1赞 2015-04-21 12:52:20

• Our training in such important subjects as mathematics and mechanics was unsatisfactory because, as i now clearly see, these subjects were taught by university teachers. Their principal interest was in the Mathematics Department, where a purely abstract exposition of Mathematics and mechanics was natural. Lecturing in a school of engineering, they repeated their university courses, not knowing what was specially important for future engineers. The teachers of the theoretical subjects had no close connection with the teachers of the technical courses, and there was no mutual understanding and agreement. The university teachers did not know what it was that future engineers needed to know, or in what form, and the engineering teachers were usually so far from any theory that they were unable... (查看原文)

  yuebeifan 2015-03-15 01:14:40

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