Timeline for Unreasonable application of mathematics to the other areas
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| Apr 2, 2019 at 4:12 | vote | accept | Ali Taghavi | ||
| Jul 9, 2016 at 20:39 | comment | added | Ali Taghavi | @CarloBeenakker Chapter 7 of that book "Cobordism". | |
| Jul 9, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | Ali Taghavi | @CarloBeenakker thank you for your answer. Many years ago, I found the quote about mathematicians and French men in the book differential topology by M. Hirsch(At the head of a chapter | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @ToddTrimble --- I stand corrected, it's definitely a Goethe quote, but not from the "Mißbrauch" text. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 14:34 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | (In Maximen und Reflexionen, page 266 here: books.google.com/…) | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 14:30 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Although I have a lot of difficulty reading German (all the more when it's written in Gothic script), I was unable to locate in that text the quote "Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen; redet man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie es in ihre Sprache, und dann ist es alsobald ganz etwas anders." Is there a page number you can point me to? | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 21:30 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | Alice’s Restaurant? | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 21:01 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | . . . for 45 minutes and nobody understood a word that he said . . . | |
| Jun 25, 2016 at 12:49 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2016 at 12:32 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |