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[// ravi]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> There were twin developments in German mathematics that vastly
> condensed and systemized mathematical education proper. One theme of
> those developments followed the Geometry line. The other followed the
> Number line. In the former we have starting with Riemann, followed
> Felix Klein and his use and development of group theory and the
> re-axiomization of geometry which superceeded the controversy over the
> parallel postulate. The other or number line starts again with
> Riemann, then follows, Cantor, et al and sets. This line sort of has
> multiple branches that creat the `morass' of analysis. (There is also
> Riemann himself to look at, study, think about and how he generated
> such numerous and giant spawn: Cantor, Klein, Hilbert, Einstein in the
> next generation. Mostly his contributions go to what I think of as the
> join of number and space into analysis and physics, while the
> number-space line goes the re-organization of algebra, via the same
> core concepts used in sets and groups.

Er, don't forget Poincaré, Weyl and the intuitionists.

A marginally related but amusing paper:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gurevich/Opera/123.pdf

	--ravi

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