Timeline for David Hilbert on Complex Multiplication [closed]
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:40 | comment | added | user9072 | @Robert Bryant: this seems quite transparent from the inclusion in Milne's text(s) and the explication of Taussky. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:29 | comment | added | Robert Bryant | Are you sure that Hilbert was talking specifically about complex multiplication for elliptic curves rather than the theory of complex numbers in general? I remember that Sir Michael Atiyah once gave a talk in which he started with the question "What was the greatest advance in mathematics in the last 1000 years?" and spent the rest of the talk defending his answer: The discovery of complex numbers. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:04 | comment | added | user9072 | I cast the final vote to close; in some sense the answer that he said it at a talk of somebody having just written on it sheds some light on the significance/context. But then as a general remark, well, people say subjective/emotional things, if they are famous some of them get preserved. And then it is not even so surprising. After all, it is a 'theorem' (well, a Satz) of Gauss that mathematics is the queen of science and nummber theory the queen of mathematics. So, this seems like some obvious corollary. :) | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 10:57 | history | closed |
David Corwin Felipe Voloch user15136 Steven Landsburg user9072 |
not a real question | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 4:10 | comment | added | kks | @Ramsey Thank you for the suggestion. Yes Milne welcomes that. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 4:08 | answer | added | kks | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 3:46 | comment | added | Ramsey | You could always ask Milne. My impression is that he's quite receptive such queries. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 3:30 | history | edited | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2012 at 3:14 | comment | added | David Corwin | I don't think he's comparing it to specific areas of physics or science, he's just emphasizing how strikingly beautiful it is (which it is :-) ). | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 3:07 | history | asked | kks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |