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“(which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).”
― Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
― Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
“Perhaps the most shocking element in the whole story of Unit 731 was MacArthur’s agreement, after the Japanese surrender, to provide immunity from prosecution to all involved, including General Ishii. This deal allowed the Americans to obtain all the data they had accumulated from their experiments. Even after MacArthur had learned that Allied prisoners of war had also been killed in the tests, he ordered that all criminal investigations should cease. Soviet requests to prosecute Ishii and his staff at the Tokyo War Crimes tribunal were firmly rejected.”
― The Second World War
― The Second World War
“The practice of treating prisoners as ‘human cattle’ had not come about from a collapse of discipline. It was usually directed by officers. Apart from local people, victims of cannibalism included Papuan soldiers, Australians, Americans and Indian prisoners of war who had refused to join the Indian National Army. At the end of the war, their Japanese captors had kept the Indians alive so that they could butcher them to eat one at a time. Even the inhumanity of the Nazis’ Hunger Plan in the east never descended to such levels.”
― The Second World War
― The Second World War
“It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.”
― Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
― Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
“Es mentira, por tanto, que Hitler consiguiera el acceso al poder por el voto popular —en realidad era consciente de que su apoyo electoral comenzaba a decaer—, sino que lo hizo con el consentimiento de un parlamento del que estaban ausentes la mayor parte de los diputados de izquierda, expulsados de él por el terror policíaco. Desde aquel momento el Reichstag se convirtió en un mero elemento decorativo, que le renovó los poderes excepcionales en 1937, 1939 y 1943, y que en los seis años que transcurrieron hasta el inicio de la guerra no llegó a votar más que siete leyes. En”
― El siglo de la revolución: Una historia del mundo desde 1914 (Serie Mayor)
― El siglo de la revolución: Una historia del mundo desde 1914 (Serie Mayor)
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