Rumor--Hungary During the Wars

[David Casseres]

And Ulam, and others who worked in the Manhattan Project.  The
non-Hungarians called them Martians, citing the evidence of
otherworldly intelligence and an utterly opaque language, unrelated to
any language known to other physicists.

On 10/1/05, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> Rich,
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Heikki
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> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, rich wrote:
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> > 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
> >
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