Talk:Gerhard Gentzen

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Why have substantive edits to this page (eg concerning Gentzen's being appointed as assistant to Hilbert) been reverted? There are no sources cited for the rest of the article (at least not for other information of a comparable kind). The correct wiki response is to put citation needed markers in not to revert the efforts of a new editor (who, as it happens, is a lecturer in philosophy and logic and a potentially valuable contributor)?

If I don't see a justification for the removal, I'll put the edits back, with cite tags. Francis Davey 12:30, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, it seems contrary to information in David Hilbert, but go ahead and reinsert it with {{fact}} tags. I'm dealing mostly with admitted vandals in various clusters of articles, and I sometimes forget to WP:AGF when there are edits which seem problematic. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm unwell at the moment, but I'll see if I can get a reference from the original editor. Francis Davey 12:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Gentzen was assistant of Hilbert between 1934 and 1943 in Göttingen. You may read this in the Menzler-Trott book or any other book about Gentzen. (Hilbert was THE famos mathematican, so he was able to hold an assistant though he formaly was not active at the university any more.)--Paul Conradi 19:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)