Igor Shafarevich: “Postscript to ‘The Three-Thousand-Year-Old Enigma'”

(Igor Shafarevich [1923-2017] was a famous Russian mathematician who was accused of "anti-Semitism" and was therefore pressured to resign his membership in the United States National Academy of Sciences, which he did in 2003).

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"Yes, finally, I myself have come across this phenomenon. I had many Jewish students. And a number of Jews from whom I studied. They were talented and (what is especially important) hardworking mathematicians. But we must not forget that the very physical and mathematical concept of the world, within which we all worked, was created by the Western European (Romano-Germanic) peoples. And representatives of other nations — Jews, Russians, Chinese, Indians, etc. — are only continuers of an already established tradition."

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/10/11/igor-shafarevich-postscript-to-the-three-thousand-year-old-enigma/

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