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Jun 13, 2019 at 1:15	comment	added	David Roberts♦		"To put dy/dx = 0/0, firmly and point-blank, does not enter their skulls. . . You need not fear that any mathematician has preceded you here." <--- as they say, lol.
Jun 12, 2019 at 20:25	history	edited	José Hdz. Stgo.	CC BY-SA 4.0	edited body
Sep 28, 2011 at 22:18	comment	added	Alex R.		Here's a good summary: pballew.blogspot.com/2011/01/mathematics-of-karl-marx.html
Sep 28, 2011 at 22:13	comment	added	Steven Landsburg		Engels writing to Marx: "Yesterday I found the courage at last to study your mathematical manuscripts even without reference books, and was pleased to find that I did not need them. I complement you on your work. The thing is as clear as daylight, so that we cannot wonder enough at the way the mathematicians insist on mystifying it. But this comes with the one-sided way these gentlemen think. To put dy/dx = 0/0, firmly and point-blank, does not enter their skulls. . . You need not fear that any mathematician has preceded you here."
Sep 28, 2011 at 21:15	comment	added	Margaret Friedland		Another example in reverse: Edmund Husserl (he studied with Weierstrass and wrote about foundations of mathematics and logic).
Sep 28, 2011 at 21:04	comment	added	user9072		Let us not forget the famous mathematician Napoleon, having a theorem named after him.
Sep 28, 2011 at 20:45	comment	added	Yemon Choi		From the current draft of the original question: "Which well-known mathematicians, past or present, started out as law/art/humanities/business students, but later turned to mathematics?"
Sep 28, 2011 at 20:25	history	answered	Richard Borcherds	CC BY-SA 3.0