Relevance to our times (last para): "One may also hope that the coming nuclear civil wars and military confrontations will lead to a better appreciation of sci

Relevance to our times (last para): "One may also hope that the coming nuclear civil wars and military confrontations will lead to a better appreciation of science by society and to a paradoxical flourishing of world mathematics (similar to the flourishing which occurred in Russia after the awful Bolshevik revolution)."