gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) (03/07/86)
In article <173@lll-lcc.UUcp> bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) writes: >Can you say "crusade"? Can you say "pogrom"? Can you say "nazi"? >I'm PROUD to be a CARBON-BASED lifeform! Anti-silicon bigot! In article <9616@ucla-cs.ARPA> cs111olg@ucla-cs.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev (the student incarnation)) writes: >I HAVE stated that I see Nazi philosophy as a(n) (direct) inheritor of >X-tian philosophical concepts, and I think Nazi movement would have never >exited in a society that had more respect for human beings. X-tianity (if you >follow the Bible) has little respect for human beings. Both of you are dead wrong. The Nazi philosophy is a direct outgrowth of Number Theory, and particularly the great development of class field theory in the 1920's. To quote the well-known Nazi mathematician Hasse: "The smallest modulus f = f(chi) which is uniquely determined by chi, is called the *conductor* of chi." -- Helmut Hasse, Number Theory Like all of the most insidious propaganda, this *sounds* innocuous. But "conductor" in German (the language Hasse was writing in) is Der Fuhrer. Is that a coincidence? Huh, huh? Invoking my apostolic authority as "the Josh McDowell of the net" I am going to have to insist that you two get a stupidity license before posting again. This is your first warning! ucbvax!brahms!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 Imagine what the world would be like if football was a worthy ritual performed in stadiums but mathematics was a misunderstood activity ignored by almost all.