What's with German logicians during the late 19th and early 20th century? There was a huge explosion of new ideas from that area. Many of the major names in mathematical logic, set theory, and the foundation of mathematics are German. Gentzen, Frege, Schröder, Dedekind, Weierstrass, Hilbert, even fucking Cantor was German.
They seem to have contributed an proportional amount of ideas to the field of mathematics compared to other nations, or even compared to themselves, before or since.
What's up with that?
James Turner
an unproportional* damn autocorrect
Joshua Foster
>What's with Polish logicians during the late 19th and early 20th century? There was a huge explosion of new ideas from that area. Many of the major names in mathematical logic, set theory, and the foundation of mathematics are Polish. Alfred Tarski, Jaśkowski, Schauder, Twardowski, Sierpiński, Kuratowski, Mazurkiewicz, Janiszewski, even fucking Banach was Polish. >They seem to have contributed an proportional amount of ideas to the field of mathematics compared to other nations, or even compared to themselves, before or since. >What's up with that?
Grayson Allen
>What's with the African logicians during the late 19th and early 20th century? There was a huge explosion of new ideas from that area. Many of the major names in mathematical logic, set theory, and the foundation of mathematics are African. A--
So you are racist.
Anthony Green
You beat me to this.
Luis Green
I was talking about the topics of mathematical logic, set theory, and the foundation of mathematics specifically. And although there are Polish, French, and British names in there as well, those specific topics seem to be unproportionally German.
Sebastian Mitchell
they seemed to be disproportionately within the late 19th and early 20th century also. strange
Parker Mitchell
I think you're being sarcastic but I don't know why. It's actually quite curious. At least to me.
It's not like modern subjects are just flooded with Germans. Seems like it's mostly the Asians nowadays. I might be completely wrong, but this is just some honest observation.
Oliver Jackson
Nah, the French have contributed most to geometry and topology. Poincaré, Serre, Grothendieck (part of the French school), Deligne, Weil, Tits, Dieudonné, Ehresmann, Leray. I mean, goddamn. Thank you, 20th century France. (I recognize that this is not the era you are discussing.)
Ian Martin
Germany was dumping a bunch of money into higher education during that period. They excelled at chemistry and engineering during that period as well.
