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Hermann weyl, the reluctant revolutionary
2003
“Brouwer – that is the revolution!” – with these words from his manifesto “On the New Foundations Crisis in Mathematics” (Weyl 1921) Hermann Weyl jumped headlong into ongoing debates concerning the foundations of set theory and analysis. His decision to do so was not taken lightly, knowing that this dramatic gesture was bound to have immense repercussions not only for him, but for many others within the fragile and politically fragmented European mathematical community. Weyl felt sure that modern mathematics was going to undergo massive changes in the near future. By proclaiming a “new” foundations crisis, he implicitly acknowledged that revolutions had transformed mathematics in the past, …
Memories and Legacies of Emmy Noether
2021
Those who knew Emmy Noether best were her fellow Germans in exile, in particular her former colleague in Gottingen, Hermann Weyl.