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Turing's Work on the Riemann Hypothesis
Alan Turing (1912-54) is a well-known name for a variety of reasons.
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Origins of Deutsche Physik (1910s)
“Just as the cubists had an inability to paint decently, so, here lies together the audacity and the inability the theoretical physicists want to impose…
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The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
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The Entscheidungsproblem (1930s)
In the early 1930s, the provincial town of Princeton, New Jersey was already well on its way to becoming a hotbed for mathematical exploration.
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John von Neumann's 1935 letter to Oswald Veblen
The book John von Neumann: Selected Letters* by Miklós Rédei (2005) is a fascinating collection of 150 of John von Neumann (1903-57)’s correspondences…
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Jørgen Veisdal
When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939)
Famously, after obtaining his Ph.D.
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The Great Purge (1933)
“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf…
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The Einstein-Freud Correspondence (1932)
Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?
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The Best Books on: Kurt Gödel
Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von…
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Einstein's Emigration to America (1932)
In May of 1932, a viciously anti-Semetic illustrated brochure entitled Juden Sehen Dich An (“Jews are Watching You”) featured Einstein in its prologue…
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Jørgen Veisdal
David Hilbert's Influence on Economics
Eminent mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943) is not known for his interest or works in economics.
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When Einstein met Churchill (1933)
When Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa left Germany in December of 1932, Einstein for a period believed that he might be able to return one day, but he…
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