Name: Anonymous 2010-12-01 11:30
It seems clear that Nazi Germany did severely persecute what it defined as “Jewish mathematics”. In his book “History of Mathematics: A Supplement” (Springer 2007) Craig Smorynski said: “… the change of mathematical direction … would reach an extreme in the 1930s with the nazi distinction between good German-Aryan anschauliche (intuitive) mathematics and the awful Jewish tendency toward abstraction and casuistry.
A false theory is false, even if not halted by a contradiction. -- L. E. J. Brouwer, founder of Intuitionism
A false theory is false, even if not halted by a contradiction. -- L. E. J. Brouwer, founder of Intuitionism