Timeline for Notable mathematics during World War II
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| Jul 4, 2022 at 12:40 | history | wiki removed | Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Sep 1, 2021 at 19:04 | comment | added | Paul Taylor | My understanding (I think from the collected works edited by Szabo) is that Gentzen was politically naive and only joined the Nazi party because someone told him it would be good for his career. He died of starvation in August 1945 in a Soviet prisoner of war camp - a huge tragedy for logic. (I also understand that several algebraists, students of Noether indeed, were much more enthusiastic Nazis, but survived the war.) | |
| Mar 29, 2012 at 12:06 | comment | added | H A Helfgott | Wasn't Gentzen himself deeply involved in Nazism (true believer, party member) - and, in particular, wasn't he pro-Bieberbach? | |
| Aug 20, 2010 at 13:54 | comment | added | darij grinberg | There is actually a note on this (althouhg in German) at ftp.mi.fu-berlin.de/usr/raut/gentzen/Gentzen.txt . | |
| Aug 20, 2010 at 13:47 | history | answered | Stefan Hoffelner | CC BY-SA 2.5 |