Final Remarks
•After 50 years the cg-method is still very much alive, being widely used and further developed
•Its ingenious inventors deserve our admiration and gratitude not only for creating it but also for their other outstanding achievements in academic teaching and research. They have essentially contributed to give the Computer Sciences a key role in today's scientific endeavors
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Thank You for your attention
The successful history of the cg-method shows us that we have to be careful when interpreting the nowadays frequently used statement: "scientific knowledge has an ever decreasing half life." It does not mean that all scientific knowledge will become obsolete or even wrong in a few years after its detection. Some inventions, especially in mathematics as shown by the cg-method, remain valid for an unlimited time.
In closing my talk I should like to thank Walter Gander and Martin Gutknecht and their collaborators who have greatly and patiently helped me to prepare the material in particular some of the photos which I have used in this presentation and made useful comments on its first draft.