The Oriental

The Japanese
* Yoshio Mikami.   The following included in the Bibliography of Science and Sanity :
A history of Japanese mathematics, by David Eugene Smith and Yoshio Mikami. Publisher Chicago : The Open Court Publishing Company [Leipzig, Printed by W. Drugulin], 1914.

The Chinese

I have not yet seen any direct connection. However,

* Note K's friend the Russian Alexander Vasilievich Vasiliev (1853-1929) whose father was 'a noted sinologist'.

* Note G. W. Leibnitz, Novissima Sinica (1679). Leibnitz was most highly regarded by Korzybski ; also by Heinrich Scholz (connection with the Pole Jan Łukasiewicz).

 

The Turanian

Note   Sometimes called Turko-Tartar, etc., theTuranian peoples most relevant here seem to have been the Finns, the Esths, the Hungarians (Magyar) and the Turks.

The Hungarian

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, (1865-1929).   Please see Jerome Alexander.

 

The Aryan (indogermanic, indoeuropean)

Note   There has been the peculiar history of the Schicklgruber/Himmler/Ribbentropp/etc-led offshoot of 'socialism' who had 'the Aryan' vs. 'the Jew' for its key propaganda item.

That looks just about as intelligent as 'the burgeoisie' vs. 'the proletariat' of their precedents. The sort of menticide can also be seen today, for example, 'the corporations' (fictitious entities) vs. 'the people'.

One can certainly assert one's right not to be misled by the propagandists of any provenience. Part of the problem : the 'racial' (biological) issues, albeit usually connected, need not always be considered when looking on the linguistic issues.

Various authors had applied various, often vague, definitions. The fundamental and underlying reality could only have been one. The three terms, Aryan, indogermanic, indoeuropean (Indo-European) are largely equivalent (synonymous).

Why be this important ? (1). One needs no anti-Aryan propaganda, not any more than one wants any other kind of misleading data. (2). In the name of general peace I, for one, could sacrifice the 5-character 'Aryan' for the sake of the 13-character 'Indo-European' in spite of the typing-related hardship.

However, there is a good quantity of most valuable literature extant — (especially of the times before 1919 — when the Bolsheviks began polluting the semantic environments world-wide) — treating of the things 'Aryan' ; this cannot be let "slip down the cracks" because of some one term or other being problematic.

A word is not the thing. One could do without one, but one would not relinquish both on the occasion. (WPT)

 

The Indian

Please see The Hindus by Florian Cajori in A History of Mathematics (New York : Macmillan, 1919 ; 4th edition, Chelsea Publishing, 1985, pages 83 - 98).

 

The Armenian

* Ara Baliozian   a contemporary writer, author of The Armenians (1975, 1980), Armenian wisdom (1993), etc., apparently familiar with the work of Korzybski.

 

The Persian

Omar Khayyam (ca. 1045-1123). Apparently wrote poetry in the Persian (Farsi?) — and wrote on mathematics in Arabic. Please see Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben.

 

The Slav (and the Lithuanian)

Note   The Poles and the Russians being brothers, the Slav (e.g. the Pole) and the Lithuanian can be reckoned to be cousins of sorts ; more closely related one to the other than the Slav is to the Teuton (the latter two could be reckoned to be cousins twice-, perhaps thrice-removed.)

The terminology I have seen was not exactly clear on these points (so I might perhaps be forgiven the brother-cousin metaphors). There have been three peoples to the Lituanian group, the Prussian (now extinct, under the influence of the German Kultur), also known as the Old Prussian ; the Lithuanian ; and the Lett.

Of the Old Prussian there remain a few Lutheran catechisms, thanks to some few German scholars. The Prussian nation had originally nothing to do with the latter day German settlers — who had taken on the name of the people and the province — save the overal Indo-European heritage which during those times was not even suspected. (WPT)

The Russian

Nicholas Lobachevsky.

* Alexander Vasilievich Vasiliev.

* N. N. Parfentiev.

The Pole

The Chech

* Tomas Masaryk.   Pupil of Franz Brentano.

 

The Greek

* Socrates.

* Plato.

* Aristotle.

* Euclid. Please see Sir Thomas Little Heath, David Eugene Smith, Cassius Jackson Keyser, Robert Daniel Carmichael, etc.

 

The Roman

The Roumanian

Grigore C. Moisil.   Follower of Jan Łukasiewicz, author of Essais sur les logiques non chrysippiennes, etc.

The Italian

* Giuseppe Peano.

* Gino Loria.   Had treated of the work by Keyser.

The French

* René Descartes (1596-1650).

* Henri Poincaré (1854-1912).

* Henri Bergson (1859-1941).   Author of Creative evolution, etc. (Please see Index, Science and Sanity).

* Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962).  

 

The Teuton (germanic)

The German

* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646 - 1716).

* Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917). Teacher of Kasimir Twardowski, Tomas Masaryk (also E. Husserl, S. Freud, etc).

* Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894).

* Erwin Schr�dinger (1887-1961).

 

 

 

W. Paul Tabaka
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