He always wanted to be helpful for the new members of the state Senate Democratic conference. He was very approachable, very thoughtful. He knew politics quite well.
Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (math.ucr.edu)Although c is now the universal symbol for the speed of light, the most common symbol in the nineteenth century was an upper-case V which Maxwell had started using in 1865. That was the notation adopted by Einstein for his first few papers on relativity from 1905. The origins of the letter c being used for the speed of light can be traced back to a paper of 1856 by Weber and Kohlrausch…