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Line 40: − [[File:Early 20th century Vienna.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Early 20th century Vienna: One million turned out to hear [[Adolf Hitler]] speak in 1938, Hitler was a regular in Viennese coffeehouses.<ref>[https://youtu.be/_QejexLmpaM Trotsky, Stalin, & Hitler walked into a Coffee House : Viennese Coffee House History], M. Laser History, Dec 12, 2020 </ref>]]
→20th century Vienna and "exact thinking"
The article ''The Untold Story of Vienna’s Global Influence'' indicates:
The article ''The Untold Story of Vienna’s Global Influence'' indicates:
{{Cquote|In the early 20th century, learning in the city took place in major educational institutions such as the University of Vienna, but also in coffeehouses and from private tutors. The result was a commitment to “exact thinking” — a term Cockett attributes to the mathematician [[Kurt Gödel]], referring to the uniquely Viennese focus on methodological rigor and applying rational, [[Scientific method|scientific thinking]] and methods to other topics and fields. Viennese thought was also defined by the pursuit of interdisciplinary knowledge and the “liberating embrace of intellectual heterodoxy and [[political pluralism]],” Cockett writes. This attitude, he argues, is best personified by the philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach, who blended his disciplines and helped inspire a generation of scientists and writers alike...
{{Cquote|In the early 20th century, learning in the city took place in major educational institutions such as the University of Vienna, but also in coffeehouses and from private tutors. The result was a commitment to “exact thinking” — a term Cockett attributes to the mathematician [[Kurt Gödel]], referring to the uniquely Viennese focus on methodological rigor and applying rational, [[Scientific method|scientific thinking]] and methods to other topics and fields. Viennese thought was also defined by the pursuit of interdisciplinary knowledge and the “liberating embrace of intellectual heterodoxy and [[political pluralism]],” Cockett writes. This attitude, he argues, is best personified by the philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach, who blended his disciplines and helped inspire a generation of scientists and writers alike...