As a matter of fact, so many Jews were excelling in math in Weimar, Germany, the Nazis attempted — and failed, of course — to create their own ethnic math. Not that any of this matters to the field of inquiry in question. The ethnic origin of math practitioners, and historical forces that worked for or against them, is for studying the history of mathematics, not math itself.
I'd like to see the data on this. Given the success of German engineering in WWII, I find it hard to believe.
>As a matter of fact, so many Jews were excelling in math in Weimar, Germany, the Nazis attempted — and failed, of course — to create their own ethnic math. Not that any of this matters to the field of inquiry in question. The ethnic origin of math practitioners, and historical forces that worked for or against them, is for studying the history of mathematics, not math itself.
I'd like to see the data on this. Given the success of German engineering in WWII, I find it hard to believe.
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