#david hilbert

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[thatswhywelovegermany]

Manche Menschen haben einen Gesichtskreis vom Radius Null und nennen ihn ihren Standpunkt.

Some people have a scope of view of radius zero and call it their point of view.

David Hilbert (1862 – 1943), German mathematician

[ropeonatrashheap]

Behold.

Brian David Hilbert.

Based on a conversation with @leaderoftheduckresistance I hope you’re happy because I sure as hell am.

[lindahall]

David Hilbert – Scientist of the Day

David Hilbert, a German mathematician was born on Jan. 23, 1862, probably in Königsberg, which was then part of Prussia.

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[arehera]

looking up quotes from mathematicians and I don't think any of them will beat when the University of Göttingen was debating whether to make Emmy Noether a professor and David Hilbert said "Gentlemen, the faculty is not a pool changing room"

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[etirabys]

David Hilbert and his (doomed) quest for a secure foundation of mathematics:

By the late nineteenth century, many other assumptions and proofs in Euclid's work were being questioned. Some argued that it was time to start from scratch by rebuilding geometry on new foundations. The task was taken up by David Hilbert, who was to become the most influential mathematician of the early twentieth century. His resulting book, Grundlagen der Geometrie (The Foundations of Geometry), published in 1899, is now recognized in its clarity of reasoning as the rightful heir of Euclid’s Elements. A mathematical best-seller, its impact was immediate.

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In his position as the discipline's foremost spokesperson, Hilbert now demanded that all of mathematics – and indeed the sciences – be made as bulletproof as his new geometry. In 1880, the famous physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond had declared there were some questions (he called them 'world riddles'), such as the ultimate nature of matter and force, that science could never answer. 'Ignoramus et ignorabimus,' as he put it: 'We do not know and will not know.'

Hilbert was having none of it. In 1900 he sounded his opposition to du Bois-Reymond's pessimism, denying that there were any such limits to knowledge. Every question had a definite answer, he argued, even if what that answer showed was that answering the original question was impossible. ... ‘For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science,’ Hilbert was to thunder even thirty years later. ‘In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen.’

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[This] would become the epitaph on his gravestone: We must know – we will know.

His dream was destroyed when Gödel proved the incompleteness theorems, but oddly I think this makes the epitaph more beautiful. It seems like the essence of any utopian project.

[forgottenbones]

The Impossible Problem NO ONE Can Solve