Answer by Mikhail Katz for Great battles in the history of mathematics
One battle that is somewhat overlooked is the battle over Cavalieri's indivisibles. His opponent was Paul (Habakkuk) Guldin, a jesuit (and other jesuits). Cavalieri was a jesuat. Most engines today...
View ArticleAnswer by Mauricio for Great battles in the history of mathematics
From Wikipedia:Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy (draw, independent discovery)Brouwer-Hilbert controversy (Hilbert removed Brouwer from the board of Mathematische Annalen, Brouwer philosophy of...
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Could someone list me the most important battles between mathematicians which happened in history, especially such that strong emotions played role in that time?Perhaps the most known one is the battle...
View ArticleAnswer by Lutz Lehmann for Great battles in the history of mathematics
In computable algebraic geometry there is the "elimination of elimination theory" controversy.It starts with Kronecker in 1880 providing an approach towards the solution of polynomial systems that...
View ArticleAnswer by ByteEater for Great battles in the history of mathematics
Dorian invasion. Unlike native Achaeans, the Dorians viewed the world in terms of Euclidean geometry (not yet called that) in which "large and small can be the same" (similarities are automorphisms),...
View ArticleAnswer by akhmeteli for Great battles in the history of mathematics
I would say Mochizuki vs Scholze fits the bill, though this is very recent history:-)
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