Brief Mention of David Hilbert
Richard Romeo
romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 28 16:32:35 CST 2003
Howdy--
from y'day's NY Times:
Gates Gives $200 Million to Aid Poor Nations
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
he Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $200
million to identify critical questions about the
leading causes of death in developing countries and to
create an international competition to entice
scientists to solve them.
The aim is to save many of the millions of lives lost
each year to malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and
other pressing health problems, Mr. Gates said in
announcing the grant yesterday at the World Economic
Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In speaking
there, Mr. Gates, the founder of Microsoft,
underscored the effects of poor health in stifling the
economies of developing countries.
In creating the grant, Mr. Gates said he had been
inspired by the success of a German, David Hilbert,
who challenged his fellow mathematicians in 1900 to
solve 23 problems over the next century. Dr. Hilbert's
challenge led to mathematical breakthroughs, opened up
fields of study and contributed to the development of
computers.
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I wonder how such breakthroughs led to the development
of the computer.
Rich
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