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    1. Nalini Joshi‏ @monsoon0 3 Jul 2019
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      Do you remember Évariste Galois, the 20 year old, who penned a famous letter to Chevalier outlining his mathematical ideas the night before dying from a duel? ☞https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Galois …

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    2. Nalini Joshi‏ @monsoon0 3 Jul 2019
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      Mathematician Hermann Weyl said "This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind.” #galois

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    3. Scoffing Mathematician  🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺‏ @BarbaraFantechi 4 Jul 2019
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      OT Wondering whether the term mankind is Weyl's own or a sexist translation of Menschheit.

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    4. Nalini Joshi‏ @monsoon0 4 Jul 2019
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      Do you mean he might have meant “humanity” or “humankind”?

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    5. Scoffing Mathematician  🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺‏ @BarbaraFantechi 4 Jul 2019
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      The standard German word is Menschheit; Mensch means person, no gender. A good translation is humankind or humanity. Neo-Latin languages also have gender neutral words - that makes mankind particularly weird.

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    6. 2-Joe Moeller‏ @CreeepyJoe 4 Jul 2019
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      Is the question whether or not "mankind" is a common English term?

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    7. Scoffing Mathematician  🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺‏ @BarbaraFantechi 4 Jul 2019
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      No. The question is whether Weyl used a sexist term or his translator did. English has non sexist terms; there is no reason not to use them in translation.

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    8. bgc‏ @blockspins 4 Jul 2019
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      According to Wikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Weyl …, the quote is from Weyl's 1952 book "Symmetry", based on lectures given at Princeton in 1951. I see the quote on page 77 of this PDF of the book https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0512/91a3a0b351c3da83a96e40b48c7fb4778157.pdf …

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      bgc‏ @blockspins 4 Jul 2019
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      (page 138 in the internal numbering)

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        1. Scoffing Mathematician  🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺‏ @BarbaraFantechi 4 Jul 2019
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          Thank you! Sad to think that we can no longer ask Weyl for what word he would have used in German ☹️

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