Their infinite wisdom

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 18:21 in Psychology & Sociology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children of the hotel's proprietors, the Chamont family, remembered them into the 1970s as 'hardworking' and 'pious' men. The guests, Dimitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin, were mathematicians, studying in Paris; they often prayed and went to church.

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