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Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry

Mathematical endeavors by a bookworm

However, Carol Parikh notes: “Although Zariski was by all accounts an exceptionally quick and eager math student, the full extent of his gifts became apparent relatively late in life. She bent down, pulled off the slip, threw it into the corridor, and kept on lecturing.” And another: “Noether would be so eager to get her thoughts down that she would write across a wet blackboard, leaving her students to wait patiently for it to dry so they could read it.” She was utterly surprised when she first saw the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, remarking: “The Jews in side curls and kaftans made me feel that I was living in two different nations.”

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