Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany (eBook)

Individual Fates and Global Impact

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
504 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3140-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented account of this exodus. In this greatly expanded translation of the 1998 German edition, Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze describes the flight of more than 140 mathematicians, their reasons for leaving, the political and economic issues involved, the reception of these emigrants by various countries, and the emigrants' continuing contributions to mathematics. The influx of these brilliant thinkers to other nations profoundly reconfigured the mathematics world and vaulted the United States into a new leadership role in mathematics research. Based on archival sources that have never been examined before, the book discusses the preeminent emigrant mathematicians of the period, including Emmy Noether, John von Neumann, Hermann Weyl, and many others. The author explores the mechanisms of the expulsion of mathematicians from Germany, the emigrants' acculturation to their new host countries, and the fates of those mathematicians forced to stay behind. The book reveals the alienation and solidarity of the emigrants, and investigates the global development of mathematics as a consequence of their radical migration. An in-depth yet accessible look at mathematics both as a scientific enterprise and human endeavor, Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany provides a vivid picture of a critical chapter in the history of international science.

Autor

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze is professor of the history of mathematics at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, in Norway.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 59 halftones. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
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• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
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• Schlagworte: abstract algebra • Acculturation • Adolf Hitler • Alwin • American Mathematical Society • Anschluss • Applied mathematics • Brown University • Career • Carl Ludwig Siegel • Case study • czechoslovakia • Denazification • Deportation • deutsche Mathematik • Differential Geometry • East Germany • Eberhard Hopf • Emigration • Emil Artin • Emil Julius Gumbel • Emmy Noether • Erhard Schmidt • Ernst Hellinger • Felix Bernstein (mathematician) • Foundations of mathematics • Franz Rellich • Fritz Herzog • Fritz John • George David Birkhoff • Germans • Gestapo • Gleichschaltung • Graduate school • Habilitation • Hans Freudenthal • Hans Rademacher • Hans Reichenbach • Harvard University • Heinz Hopf • Helmut Hasse • Hermann Weyl • His Family • Immigration • Immigration Policy • Immigration to the United States • International isolation • internment • Issai Schur • James Franck • Jews • John von Neumann • Karl Menger • Kurt Grelling • Lecture • Lipman Bers • Mathematical Statistics • mathematician • Mathematics • Mathematische Annalen • Max Born • Max Dehn • McCarthyism • Naturalization • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Neumann • New York University • Norbert Wiener • Number Theory • Numerical analysis • Oswald Veblen • Pension • Persecution • Philosopher • Politics • Pretext • Princeton University • Privatdozent • Probability • Publication • Pure Mathematics • Racism • Refugee • Reich Flight Tax • resentment • Richard Brauer • Richard Courant • richard von mises • salary • Scientist • Soviet Union • theoretical physics • The Other Hand • Unemployment • Von Mises • Weimar Republic • World War II • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3140-7 / 1400831407
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3140-1 / 9781400831401