[HN Gopher] The Mathematical Center of the Universe (1807-1933) ___________________________________________________________________ The Mathematical Center of the Universe (1807-1933) Author : jorgenveisdal Score : 58 points Date : 2023-01-30 07:24 UTC (15 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.privatdozent.co) (TXT) w3m dump (www.privatdozent.co) | killjoywashere wrote: | If you want a deep dive on Gottingen, Constance Reid's biography | of Hilbert is great. | | Fun fact: Hilbert was born in Konigsberg, a port city on the | Baltic with a famous set of 7 bridges, and as part of the WWII | peace settlement between the allies, Russia got it. But not | without some interest stipulations. | | Konigsberg is now Kaliningrad, in the Kaliningrad Oblast, a | geographically separated province of Russia. In order for Russia | to regain direct access to the Kalingrad port (Konigsberg), | Russia would have to invade either Lithuania or Poland. And if | you look at the borders, it's pretty clear they were designed as | a lock: a straight shot from the nearest point in Russia would go | through Lithuania, then Poland, and Lithuania again. | | https://www.amazon.com/Hilbert-Constance-Reid/dp/0387946748/ | tmathmeyer wrote: | I think you've misremembered geography here - a straight line | from "mainland" Russia to Kaliningrad cuts through Lithuania | and Latvia, and to involve Poland here, you'd have to be | drawing a line from Belarus. Additionally, when Kaliningrad was | handed over to the Soviets, it was contiguous as part of the | USSR. There was no "design" to make the Russians upset about | it. | | Map: https://imgur.com/a/xtBJAig | Ralfp wrote: | 1992 Russia offered Kaliningrad to both Poland and Lithuania, | but neither country was interested in a region with seriously | underdeveloped economy and inhabited by Russians who wouldn't | feel either Polish or Lithuanian, nor would they speak the | language. | | > And if you look at the borders, it's pretty clear they were | designed as a lock | | Assuming you speak about Suwalki Corridor, those borders | reflect pre-war borders of local counties. No mastermind | planning to make it hard for Russia to make it from Belarus to | Kaliningrad. In fact it was Russia who drove those lines in | first place after WW2. | | Only ,,problem" Russia would have to solve in eventual | aggression is getting an army into Belarus. But they can just | target the Baltics instead and strike from their own territory. | georgecmu wrote: | _1992 Russia offered Kaliningrad to both Poland and | Lithuania, but neither country was interested in a region | with seriously underdeveloped economy and inhabited by | Russians who wouldn't feel either Polish or Lithuanian, nor | would they speak the language._ | | Interesting -- I haven't heard about this. Do you know where | I can find out more about this offer? | | I have spent some time in the summers of 1993-1995 in | Lithuania near the border with Kaliningrad on the Curonian | spit. I believe the Russian fleet was still based in Klaipeda | in 1994. | [deleted] | glass3 wrote: | There was also a talk in 1920 about universal computation 16 | years before Turing: | | https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/where-did-combin... | wslh wrote: | Impressive research! I have an story that is related to this | kind of history research and genealogy but not with math. My | great-great-grandfather was born in Gornostaypol [1], before | the XX century. He came to Argentina with some of his children | and my grandfather. Beyond my family and Internet genealogy | will be very difficult to get information (without going to | Ukraine...) and who can remember him or something about my | family in 2023 in a village with minimum population? The Google | search is more complex also because his surname was "men". | | So... a post appeared in July 13, 2022 talking about my great- | great-grandfather from the memories of a women who was born in | 1938 [2]. Those are amazing things such as searching a needle | in a haystack. Randomness helps. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornostaipil | | [2] https://jewua.org/gornostaypol/ | kensai wrote: | What a great time to live and do maths in Gottingen. | Haga wrote: | [dead] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-30 23:00 UTC)