Word: riemann
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With the help of his friend Marcel Grossmann, Einstein studied the theory of curved spaces and surfaces that had been developed by Bernhard Riemann as a piece of abstract mathematics, without any thought that it would be relevant to the real world. In 1913, Einstein and Grossmann wrote a paper in which they put forward the idea that what we think of as gravitational forces are just an expression of the fact that space-time is curved. However, because of a mistake by Einstein (who was quite human and fallible), they weren't able to find the equations that related...
More accurately, McMullen says, "My recent research has been in the fields of complex dynamics, Riemann surfaces and hyperbolic geometry...
Angry now, O'Keefe filed his lawsuit. This time Loewen dispatched a top executive, John Turner, currently working for SCI, to settle the lawsuit. Turner, in an offer so appealing it just about stunned O'Keefe, proposed to sell O'Keefe the Riemann family's insurance company, which was like offering to sell the Hatfield homestead to a McCoy...
...however, bothered to mention the plan to the Riemanns. They too charged up to Vancouver. David Riemann presented Ray Loewen with a bitter five-page letter in which he questioned Loewen's commitment to "bottoms-up management," Loewen's stated philosophy of delegating authority to regional managers and local funeral directors. Riemann complained that his wife Tammy had been fired by Loewen without notice, then continued, "I have had all responsibility of operations taken from me. I have yet to figure out, or have I ever been told, why I was totally eliminated from any and all operations functions...
Soon after the Loewen group made its offer to sell O'Keefe the Riemanns' insurance company, the deal began to erode. Or so it seemed to O'Keefe, who suspected the Riemann boys of using their insider status with Ray Loewen to undermine the sale. All at once the company seemed to drag its feet and impose new barriers. Even John Turner, then Ray Loewen's right-hand executive, later testified that he too became convinced that no matter how cooperative O'Keefe tried to be, the deal would not be completed...