A Few Thoughts...

[Monte Davis]

Ya Sam sez:

> Moreover, in another 
> conversation I 
> mentioned Tesla to a couple of engineering students, so they 
> learnt about 
> the existence of this fine person from me... 

I'm less surprised by that than by Riemann. Engineering education is almost
entirely a-historic, and even if they were electrical engineers they could
have been doing calculations in teslas (units of magnetic flux density) for
years without the word's origin coming up.