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Quite 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_Birnba
by nomemory 3y ago
Quite 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".