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- From: dekinder@evsds.uia.ac.be (Jan De Kinder)
- Subject: Re: Ansatz (as used in mathematical physics)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.093829.20101@reks.uia.ac.be>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:38:29 GMT
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- siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
- : I've seen the term Ansatz used (in English) to describe the
- : mathematical structure that is set up to analyse a physics problem or
- : solve a mathematical physics problem; but none of several English
- : dictionaries I've check contain this term, nor do my Deutsch-English
- : dictionaries give much clue to this usage. Can anyone quote any
- : authoritative references on this particular usage?
- :
-
- Perhaps, a more elaborate Deutsch-English may work. I can find it in my
- Deutsch-Dutch dictionnary as 'starting point'. It is the starting point
- for the solution of a given problem. (Mostly the problem is too complicated
- to solve it analytically, and simplifications or approximations have to
- be made, so don't mix it up with 'approximation') It may be easier to
- check for the verb 'ansetzen'.
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