How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses
- Written by David Gunderman, Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado
The auditorium at University of Göttingen today.Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia, CC BY-SAThere are two things that connect the names Gauss, Riemann, Hilbert and Noether. One is their outstanding breadth of contributions to the field of mathematics. The other is that each was a professor at the same university in Göttingen, Germany.
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