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One of my grandmothers, born about 100 years ago in Romania (she’s not with us anymore), told me many times she was denied from pursuing math education because
by gregsadetsky 3y ago
One of my grandmothers, born about 100 years ago in Romania (she’s not with us anymore), told me many times she was denied from pursuing math education because of then Nazi policies of “numerus nulus” i.e. the exclusion of jews from public universities.
There’s a fascinating wikipedia page on the topic of racial academic exclusions - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus
And related to math exams, this paper of problems that looked easy but were quite difficult (and which were given to jews in the USSR) is also quite interesting — https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
- nomemory 3y agoQuite a lot Jewish people were influential in mathematics in Romania. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Birnbaum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Birnbaum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Emmanuel_(mathematician) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Emmanuel_(mathematicia... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Emmanuel_(mathematician) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Emmanuel_(mathematicia... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meinhard_E._Mayer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meinhard_E._Mayer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Jacob_Schoenberg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Jacob_Schoenberg And many others. My grandfather who become a math teacher eventually had a Jewish math teacher. So was my grandmother's brother, he had lots of Jewish math teachers. Unfortunately things become bad during ww2, but before that Jews were overly represented into teaching math.
- gregsadetsky 3y agoThanks for this. My grandmother came of university age in the 40s, so this all makes sense.
- lupire 3y agoDisproportionately, not "overly".