Rumor--Hungary During the Wars

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Rich,

I'm only conscious of this article by David Kipen:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/01/RV137411.DTL

Besides Teller, John von Neumann, for instance, also came from
Hungary. He worked with Hilbert in Gottingen in late twenties
and provided a mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics in
terms of linear operators on Hilbert spaces.


Heikki

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, rich wrote:

> Hey all--
>  I'm trying to track down where the rumor about Pynchon being interested in
> writing something about Hungary during the world wars came from. the Hilbert
> stuff has been mention often enough and Gottingen but where did Hungary
> emerge from, rumor-wise?
>  Rich
>