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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.math
- Subject: Re: Ansatz (as used in mathematical physics)
- Message-ID: <1470@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:21:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.025132.18641@EE.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan11.025132.18641@EE.Stanford.EDU> siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
- > I've seen the term Ansatz used (in English) to describe the
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- An ansatz is a hypothesis or supposition which simplifies a situation.
- satz in general means theorem or proposition, and for example hilfsatz
- (help - theorem) is essentially a lemma (a result which helps to prove
- another result).
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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