Word: fourier
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense of the limits of rationality, and a romantic belief in the necessity for personal experience as the source of religion. It is also easy to see that his anti-urban theorizing in the manner of Owen and Fourier, and his very German conception of nationality have contributed much to the more romantic and unfortunate aspects of modern Israel...
...every year in examinations to weed out the weak and encourage the strong," said Courant. The Germans followed suit with a technical school in 1793, and both institutions collected the best minds of all ages. Napoleon drew on the Ecole for his Egyptian campaign, taking the celebrated mathematician Fourier along to decipher hieroglyphics, Courant related...