In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and ...

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Here, she was able to sit in the lectures of some of the brightest mathematical minds of the time – Karl Schwarzschild, Hermann Minkowski, Otto Blumenthal, Felix Klein and David Hilbert. While there, ...