I've been trying to find out who Serge Lang was. I found this. Born in Saint-Germain-En-Laye (upper middle-class suburb of Paris) or in Paris (the sources don't match). He then emigrated to the United States. He was part of the Bourbaki group (impossible to find the dates). But Bourbaki's Algebra Book is from 1942 and Lang's Algebra Book is from 1965 i.e. he copied Bourbaki. He was famous for his taste for intellectual polemics. He gave exercises to his students to demonstrate the inanity of Huntington's theses in "The Clash of Civilizations" (1996). At the end of his life he would engage in more dubious polemics. Never mind. Also a specialist in number theory and algebraic geometry.
If somebody could find a copy of "the File" and make it available I think it would be good for the history of mathematics. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/us/serge-lang-78-a-gadfly-and-mathematical-theorist-dies.html https://mathoverflow.net/questions/90562/what-has-happened-to-langs-files-and-other-political-texts https://news.yale.edu/2005/09/26/memoriam-serge-lang-yale-mathematician-and-ethicist http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lang.html -- FL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metamath" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to metamath+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/66bd7167-6772-4daa-bd37-659674ec6399%40googlegroups.com.
