Timeline for Origin of symbol *l* for a prime different from a fixed prime?
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 20:57 | history | edited | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 20:20 | vote | accept | Jim Humphreys | ||
| Jul 6, 2010 at 18:35 | answer | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 6, 2010 at 12:06 | answer | added | quim | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 18:37 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I have seen $q$ used for the alternative prime in some textbooks on elementary number theory. The trouble with $q$ is that it is often used to denote a power of $p$. | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 16:31 | comment | added | JBorger | For those interested in this topic, see the book "Mathematicians under the Nazis" by Sanford L Segal. There is a section on Witt there. | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 15:05 | comment | added | H A Helfgott | Hopefully this will be the last remark on the subject - but the SA was most certainly not a youth organisation; it was an extremely violent paramilitary organisation for adults. Witt was an active member of the NSDAP. See the references on his Wikipedia page. | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 11:12 | comment | added | Jim Humphreys | Thanks for the correction. The details about Witt at that time are not well documented. Some people attracted to the right-wing were far more militant than others. In any case, Witt's postwar visit to Stony Brook was coolly received by many people there, according to what I was later told. And Witt's mathematical career like many others in Europe got derailed in the 1930s and 1940s. | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 11:06 | history | edited | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 2, 2010 at 10:33 | history | edited | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 2, 2010 at 7:43 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Witt was an SA (not SS) member, but "convert to the Nazi cause" seems a bit over the top (unlike his teacher Hasse). I don't have any "inside" information, but from what I read, it didn't appear any different from people in USSR and Warsaw Pact countries becoming members of communist youth organizations, often because it was advantageous or even necessary for academic career. | |
| Jun 30, 2010 at 18:36 | answer | added | T.. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 30, 2010 at 18:34 | answer | added | Charles Matthews | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 30, 2010 at 17:52 | history | asked | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 2.5 |