Serge Lang citáty

Serge Lang bol francúzsky matematik, člen skupiny Nicolas Bourbaki. Je známy predovšetkým vďaka práci v teórii čísel a ako autor viacerých známych matematických učebníc.

dobe svojho úmrtia bol emeritným profesorom na Yaleovej univerzite.

Lang tiež pracoval v teórii polí a v oblasti diofantických aproximácií, v teórii transcendentných čísel zas upravil výsledok Theodora Schneidera, dnes známy ako Schneiderova-Langova veta. Sformuloval tiež množstvo domnienok v oblasti diofantickej geometrie.

Bol tiež aktívnym odporcom Vietnamskej vojny. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. máj 1927 – 12. september 2005
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Serge Lang: Citáty v angličtine

“I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.”

"HIV and AIDS: Have We Been Misled?; Questions of Scientific and Journalistic Responsibility," http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/slquestions.htm Yale Scientific (Fall 1994), reprinted in Challenges (Springer, 1997, ISBN 0387948619, p. 70

“I am bothered by the way misinformation is accepted uncritically, and by the way people are unable to recognize it or reject it.”

This is part of Lang's campaign in his attempt to discredit the results of The 1977 survey of the American professoriate published in 1979 by Everett C Ladd and Seymour M Lipsett. In 1981 Lang published The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) which consists of copies of correspondence concerning the survey. In this quote from The File Lang sets out why he fought that campaign.