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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "History" 2009.01.04 (07) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">> From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">M.-L. Lessing</span> <<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de" target="_blank">marless@gmx.de</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "History" 2009.01.04 (05) [E]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">> Dear Sandy,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">> I judged only by the
name of the scientist and am dismayed to hear that not even Euler was german.
(Sniff!) Thanks for the Cantor comfort! I had not given him a nation, with his
latin name. Maybe some of my "french" mathematicians turn out to
be french-swiss also, but the mass of french names in maths is very convincing
to me. It must have to do with language. I like the idea the more for being
unable to prove it, that makes it so un-mathematical. No -- there are many
things in math that I have not been able to prove :-)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In the Beginning of the
20th century German had a leading role in development of mathematics.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">cf. Hilbert, Frege, Goedel
and many others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goedel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goedel</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ackermann" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ackermann</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I think they helped me in
developping my knowledge of German, since I had to work through this stuff for
a paper at the ende of the sixties.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Many resources at the time
were found in <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Crelles Journal</span></strong>:</span></p>
<p><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: purple;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crelles_Journal" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crelles_Journal</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">or published by <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Teubner</span></strong> in Leipzig</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">At the time <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">one needed to study German</span></strong> for
understanding <strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">modern mathematics</span></strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">WWII, preceededed by ethnic
cleaning at universities, ruined it all for Germany,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Roger</span></p>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "History" 2009.01.04 (07) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Have you
forgotten Gottfried Leibnitz!!?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">But take a
look here at the Field Medal winners (the maths equivalent of a Nobel Prize,
but only awarded every four years):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Societies/FieldsMedal.html" target="_blank">http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/FieldsMedal.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You might
be on to something there; six of the "clickable" ones are French,
second only to the USA
with 10. Add in the two Belgians, whose names suggest French rather than
Flemish, and the French-speakers look even better. Also note that
Alexander Grothendieck, though German-born, did most of his work in France before vanishing into the Pyrenees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In fact if
you click on one of the French names such as Alain Connes, then click on
Mathematicians from the same country, you see how many French ones there are.
Though if you do the same with Grothendiek, the German list is pretty
impressive too. As is England;
I initially suspected that they actually meant the United Kingdom, but I notice the
Scot Napier isn't listed, so maybe they are actually all English.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The
relatively small showing from Russia
surprises me, and the even smaller contributions from Japan and China.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Also none
of the Field Medal winners is Indian, despite that country producing many
mathematical prodigies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul<br style="">
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