Exploring Felix Klein's contested modernism

Autor:	Heinig, Peter, Katz, Mikhail G., Kuhlemann, Karl, Schaefermeyer, Jan Peter, Sherry, David
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Mathematics - History and Overview Mathematical Physics 01A60 01A61
Zdroj:	Antiquitates Mathematicae 17 (2023), 29-65
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.14708/am.v17i1.7245
Popis:	An alleged opposition between David Hilbert and Felix Klein as modern vs countermodern has been pursued by marxist historian Herbert Mehrtens and others. Scholars such as Epple, Grattan-Guinness, Gray, Quinn, Rowe, and recently Siegmund-Schultze and Mazzotti have voiced a range of opinions concerning Mehrtens' dialectical methodology. We explore contrasting perspectives on Klein's contested modernism, as well as Hilbert's and Klein's views on intuition, logic, and physics. We analyze Jeremy Gray's comment on Klein's ethnographic speculations concerning Jewish mathematicians and find it to be untenable. We argue that Mehrtens was looking for countermoderns at the wrong address. Comment: 32 pages
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00122 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv