Κ. ΚΑΡΑΘΕΟΔΩΡΗ - ΑΝΕΚΔΟΤΟ
Two anecdotes told by H. Freudenthal in Math. Intelligencer 4 (2), 1982.
Erhard Schmidt (born 1876 in Estland) visited Tsarist Russia. The police searched his luggage and confiscated a dangerous book. It mentioned "Power of the masses" (actually: M\"achtigkeit der Menge) too often. There went a fine book about set theory . . ..
When Schmidt told this to his friend Constantin Caratheodory (born 1873, Berlin, Greek but originally a Turkish subject), Caratheodory said: That's nothing to what happened to me on entering Turkey. I had an engineering book confiscated by the Turkish police because it talked about a machine that made fifty revolutions a minute.
Erhard Schmidt (born 1876 in Estland) visited Tsarist Russia. The police searched his luggage and confiscated a dangerous book. It mentioned "Power of the masses" (actually: M\"achtigkeit der Menge) too often. There went a fine book about set theory . . ..
When Schmidt told this to his friend Constantin Caratheodory (born 1873, Berlin, Greek but originally a Turkish subject), Caratheodory said: That's nothing to what happened to me on entering Turkey. I had an engineering book confiscated by the Turkish police because it talked about a machine that made fifty revolutions a minute.
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