The Gaussian-School of Higher-Arithmetic; (1831, updated 2022).
Recalling the origins of the 2022 update.
Shortly after 9th November 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall), as soon as they were able to do so, tens of thousands of East German electrical engineers travelled on long distance coach trips, sometimes with their whole families in tow, to pay their respects at Maxwell's memorial, located at an incredibly remote place in Galloway, South West Scotland. There was almost no parking available and the local council had to spring into action in order to clear up the sudden traffic jams caused by so many heavy long distance coaches turning up every single day for months on end. These East German electrical engineers were just emerging out of the abject poverty that the Soviet system had imposed upon them. This was a very expensive trip for people in their financial circumstances. It was the local newspaper story of the parking difficulties that put me onto this. It took me 16-years to finally getting around to actually working on it because at that time I was the CEO of a small multi-national corporation, but I decided to explain why the East German electrical engineers needed to do this. I thought it was so obvious that writing this thing up would take me no more than one happy afternoon. Well, it sort of grew on me and maybe I am done now or maybe I am not finished yet, but this matter has fully engaged my attention for 17-years so far, often working at over 80-hours per week.
The author was born in Aberdeen University hospital, 26/04/1950, to his Scottish-German mother, a medical student there and later a consultant psychiatrist, so technically speaking he is not only Polish-Russian, but also Scottish-German.
The fabulous Katherine Mary Dewar Maxwell together with her very poorly looking husband, the founding father of all post-1890 electrical engineering. Shortly after this photo was taken, Maxwell died of TB at age 48. I was 9 years older than Maxwell was at his death, when I finally took up from where he had left off. The full-time work at 80 hours per week took me another 17 years, and I had known the basic solution to this tough mathematical puzzle for the entire 43 year period before I even started out on this great scientific Odyssey for
mathematical completion.
For a very sad footnote; scroll on down.
I decided to publish this personal story here as a side bet or a joke with myself. My bet is that despite the great legacy of John Napier, James Watt, James Clerk Maxwell, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, Sir Alexander Fleming, John Stewart Bell (Belfast, but of Scottish origin) and Robert Watson-Watt, great Scottish engineers, scientists and mathematicians are now an empty set. Trust me, I do want to lose this bet but my feeling is that I just can't lose. Please make my day, prove that I am wrong about this. Why do I now think of myself as Polish-Russian? Because given the politics in Scotland today, I no longer even wish to be associated with that formerly blessed Christian country but now utterly damned pagan communist cess pit at all.
