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Aug 16, 2021 at 17:26 comment added Jose Capco This is a bit off-topic but Forster was my advisor. To this date, I would like to think that he is the person who really shaped the way I am doing math. And yes, his proofs are mostly simple and beautiful. Which explains why he is such a great educator and mathematician.
May 22, 2012 at 17:33 comment added Leo Alonso I'm impressed. Very nice answer.
Feb 5, 2012 at 8:18 vote accept K1.
Feb 4, 2012 at 13:19 comment added Georges Elencwajg My friend Otto Forster once told me that he had seen in an old German book on group theory the sentence "Um den Satz zu erhärten, geben wir einen zweiten Beweis", which translates as: "To harden the theorem, we give a second proof". Logicians tell me that they are not convinced of the hardening. Pity, that
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Feb 4, 2012 at 9:43 history answered Georges Elencwajg CC BY-SA 3.0