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Barrow-Green, June and Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard
(2016).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2016.08.005
Abstract
A short, catchy, and in its content somewhat exaggerated, quote allows us to draw a connection through three-quarters of a century between two leaders of mathematics who apparently held somewhat similar philosophical, pedagogical, and political views. In addition to providing some new facets to the biographies of Gergonne and Hilbert, our article relates to increasing demands for the dissemination of mathematical knowledge and to corresponding structural changes within mathematics during the 19th century.