Serge Lang
Serge Lang
Serge Langwas a French-born American mathematician and activist. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He was a member of the Bourbaki group. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale University...
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth19 May 1927
responsibility addresses matter
To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
political intellectual isms
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
numbers goal world
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
community standards congress
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
hygiene lasts rubbish
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
drug firsts scientist
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
views media people
To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.