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Jewish Mathematics

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-06 10:38

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cantor#Cantor.27s_ancestry
>Cantor was frequently described as Jewish in his lifetime

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.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-07 8:58

>>35
That's incorrect as well. Look up the definition for ``intuition''. You're out of your element.

Anschaulich means ``visible'' in a metaphorical sense. It conveys that there is something to be reasoned with that makes deductions simple and easy. ``Intuitive'' on the other hand states that no such thing making understanding possible is need because it seems to explain itself.

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