Hi Mike,
Abraham Robinson in his Non-Standard Analysis which solves the problem
of infinitesimals. Not politically radical this book but you didn't
specify. Second Gumbel's nomination.
Would you include logicians? If so, then Goedel is an essential
inclusion. Again, not political. When asked how Vienna was after he
returned from a trip there before the war, he replied that the coffee
was terrible.
I have often wondered whether Category Theory is cognitively empty.
larry
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From: "Mike Izbicki" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 23/03/2013 02:47:31
Subject: A history of radical mathematicians
>Hi all,
>
>I'm new here. I'm a mathematician (well theoretical comp sci) and a
>radical. I've long wanted a history of radical mathematicians, so
>that I could learn from their successes and failures about how to use
>mathematics to help the radical agenda. (My personal main radical
>interest is anti-war stuff.) I don't think such a history exists, so
>I've been trying to put one together.
>
>Does anyone here have any suggestions on people and organizations I
>should look into for this project?
>
>Here's two short examples of pretty awesome radical mathematicians:
>
>1) Alexander Grothendieck helped develop a branch of math called
>category theory in a way that some people describe as the "universal
>theory of math." To protest the Vietnam war, he went to Hanoi while it
>was being bombed and gave lectures on his work. He's still alive today
>and lives as a hermit.
>
>2) Emil Gumbel pioneered a branch of statistics that focuses on
>extreme values. In the 1920s, he asserted that because the capitalist
>economic system developed the discipline of statistics to record its
>achievements, it was the duty of socialist statisticians to expose the
>hidden figures that would provide the public with a thorough picture
>of the unequal conditions wrought by capitalism. He was the center of
>a huge scandal as the Nazis rose to power in Germany for exposing Nazi
>political murders.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mike Izbicki
>
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