https://totallyhistory.com/david-hilbert/ Facts About Famous Events & Records of the Past Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://totallyhistory.com/david-hilbert/#comment-705999 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:04:40 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=66619#comment-705999 Wikipedia provides this anecdote from near the end of Hilbert’s life:
“Hilbert lived to see the Nazis purge many of the prominent faculty members at University of Göttingen in 1933.
About a year later, Hilbert attended a banquet and was seated next to the new Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust. Rust asked whether “the Mathematical Institute really suffered so much because of the departure of the Jews”. Hilbert replied, “Suffered? It doesn’t exist any longer, does it!”

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