Talk:Wilhelm Blaschke

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[edit] Nazi Problem Finds Jewish Solution

In 1955, Wilhelm Blaschke, a noted German mathematician, threw up his hands in the face of quandary over which he had long puzzled. He deemed the “three-web problem,” which focused on how to straighten a web’s curved lines, “hopeless". More than half a century later, the puzzle has been solved. The twist? Blaschke was a Nazi sympathizer, and the professor who recently co-authored the problem’s solution is a Jew. Vladislav Goldberg, a Russian émigré who now teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology, published the solution together with Norwegian mathematician Valentin Lychagin this past March.

http://www.forward.com/articles/nazi-problem-finds-jewish-solution/