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You can start calling them Alfhors spaces instead.

But I think it's important to keep Teichmuller around as a reminder of the important lesson (especially around here) that mathematical genius does mean that everything one says on all topics is logically or morally correct.

As Teichmuller wrote: > I am not concerned with making difficulties for you as a Jew, but only with protecting – above all – German students of the second semester from being taught differential and integral calculus by a teacher of a race quite foreign to them. I, like everyone else, do not doubt your ability to instruct suitable students of whatever origin in the purely abstract aspects of mathematics. But I know that many academic courses, especially the differential and integral calculus, have at the same time educative value, inducting the pupil not only to a conceptual world but also to a different frame of mind. But since the latter depends very substantially on the racial composition of the individual, it follows that a German student should not be allowed to be trained by a Jewish teacher.[8]




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