FOM: Re: Hilbert's 24th problem

[Stephen G Simpson]

Charles Silver Fri, 6 Apr 2001 writes:
 >     Was that business about Hilbert's 24th simply an April Fool's
 > joke?

I am trying to track it down.  Ruediger Thiele is a real person, a
historian of mathematics, see

   http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ksi/Thielepub.html

However, I haven't found any web reference to his lecture on this,
except the FOM message from Teun Koetsier.  The Koetsier message was
dated April 4, not April 1.

-- Steve