Michael Hugh Knowles
The author grew up with a love of science and mathematics from a very
early age. He got his undergraduate degree in mathematics with a minor in
physics at the University of Illinois in 1967, but fell victim to the All
But Dissertations Curse when doing graduate work in computer science: his
thesis advisor unexpectedly rejected his dissertation topic, and
simultaneously someone offered him $ to design and program an operating
system.
During a prolonged, and still continuing, period of serious ill-health and
inactivity, the author decided to see what he could come up with in the
way of “science... when wrong to be put right.” He has found several
important... oversights, not only in science and in mathematics, but in the
philosophy of these. Newton’s
Great... Oversight is among them.
