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Katsaus kansainvälisen sotilaan fyysisen suorituskyvyn kongressin (International Congress of Soldiers’ Physical Performance, ICSPP) historiaan
2021
On the Background to Hilbert’s Paris Lecture “Mathematical Problems”
2018
Much has been written about the famous lecture on “Mathematical Problems” (Hilbert 1901) that David Hilbert delivered at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians, which took place in Paris during the summer of 1900 (Alexandrov 1979; Browder 1976). Not that the event itself evoked such great interest, nor have many writers paid particularly close attention to what Hilbert had to say on that occasion. What mattered – both for the text and the larger context – came afterward. Mathematicians remember ICM II and Hilbert’s role in it for just one reason: this was the occasion when he unveiled a famous list of 23 problems, a challenge to those who wished to make names for themselves in …