У кого не хватает воображения для математики?
Принято считать, что речь идёт о неуспешном математике, ушедшем в поэты -
известная фраза, приписываемая Гильберту. Как бы то ни было, сама идея о важности
фантазии и для математика и для поэта возникла несколько раньше.
``Academic anti-Semitism took on subtle guises and the various
forms of de facto discrimination against those who were
seen as Jewish can in most cases only be discerned through
private communications. Thus, Karl Weierstrass confided to
Sofia Kovalevskaya that his nemesis, Leopold Kronecker,
“shares the shortcoming one finds in many intelligent people,
especially those of Semitic stock: he does not possess
sufficient fantasy (intuition I would prefer to say). And it
is true, a mathematician who is not something of a poet
will never be a complete mathematician.”"
(Weierstrass to Kovalevskaya, 27 August 1883; Weierstrass pointed to
other examples: Abel vs. Jacobi, and Riemann as opposed to Eisenstein
and Rosenhain in this letter first made public by Gösta Mittag-Leffler,
“Une page de la vie de Weierstrass,” Compte Rendu du Deuxième Congrès
International des Mathématiciens. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902, p.
149.)
D.E. Rowe ``Klein, Hurwitz, and the “Jewish Question” in German Academia"
(Mathematical Intelligencer 29(2)(2007): 18-30)
К сожалению, мы никогда не узнаем, что ответила на это Софья Васильевна -
все письма Ковалевской были уничтожены Вейерштрассом после её смерти.
известная фраза, приписываемая Гильберту. Как бы то ни было, сама идея о важности
фантазии и для математика и для поэта возникла несколько раньше.
``Academic anti-Semitism took on subtle guises and the various
forms of de facto discrimination against those who were
seen as Jewish can in most cases only be discerned through
private communications. Thus, Karl Weierstrass confided to
Sofia Kovalevskaya that his nemesis, Leopold Kronecker,
“shares the shortcoming one finds in many intelligent people,
especially those of Semitic stock: he does not possess
sufficient fantasy (intuition I would prefer to say). And it
is true, a mathematician who is not something of a poet
will never be a complete mathematician.”"
(Weierstrass to Kovalevskaya, 27 August 1883; Weierstrass pointed to
other examples: Abel vs. Jacobi, and Riemann as opposed to Eisenstein
and Rosenhain in this letter first made public by Gösta Mittag-Leffler,
“Une page de la vie de Weierstrass,” Compte Rendu du Deuxième Congrès
International des Mathématiciens. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1902, p.
149.)
D.E. Rowe ``Klein, Hurwitz, and the “Jewish Question” in German Academia"
(Mathematical Intelligencer 29(2)(2007): 18-30)
К сожалению, мы никогда не узнаем, что ответила на это Софья Васильевна -
все письма Ковалевской были уничтожены Вейерштрассом после её смерти.