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Alexander Groethendieck's story is a parallel in mathematics. Groethendieck was one of the most influential mathematicians of the previous century and he was a
by danharaj 11y ago
Alexander Groethendieck's story is a parallel in mathematics. Groethendieck was one of the most influential mathematicians of the previous century and he was a militant leftist. He once lectured in Vietnam during the US's military campaign and thought that mathematicians had moral and political obligations.
He was also extremely eccentric and erratic to the point where he withdrew from society almost entirely and lived as a recluse in the south of France for the last of his days.
- dang 11y agoThere is also Frank Lawvere: http://formandformalism.blogspot.com/2011/09/lawvere-on-mathematics-and-maoist.html http://formandformalism.blogspot.com/2011/09/lawvere-on-math....
- danharaj 11y agoYeah, Lawvere has attempted to formalize dialectics into category theory via the theory of adjoint modalities. Whether or not that is a full and faithful interpretation of Hegel isn't something i can determine or argue but the notion leads to interesting synthetic mathematics.