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1926

in 1926
. on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study mathematics under David Hilbert

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1927


1928

in 1928
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Berlin
. at the University of Berlin

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1929

in 1929
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. at the University of Hamburg

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. Princeton University

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1944

in 1944
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1947

in 1947
. "The Mathematician", in The Works of the Mind (1947) edited by R. B. Heywood, University of Chicago Press, Chicago

" I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics."
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in 1947
. "The Mathematician", in The Works of the Mind (1947) edited by R. B. Heywood, University of Chicago Press, Chicago

" But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas."
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