Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global ImpactPrinceton University Press, 2009 - 471 עמודים 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. |
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... Felix Bernstein 262 Chapter 10 The Impact of Immigration on American Mathematics 267 10.1. The “Impact of Immigration” Viewed from Various Global, Biographical, National, or Nonmathematical Perspectives 270 10.2. The Institutional and ...
... Felix Bernstein 388 Appendix 5.1 Richard Courant in October 1945 to the American Authorities Who Were Responsible for German Scientific Reparation 390 Appendix 5.2 Max Dehn's Refusal to Rejoin the German Mathematicians' Association DMV ...
... Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942) 98 20. Robert Remak (1888–1942) 100 21. Kurt Grelling (1886–1942) 106 22. Harald Bohr (1887–1951) 108 23. “Once More . . . the Refugee Problem Abroad” 110 24. Godfrey H. Hardy (1877–1947) 116 25. Felix ...
... Felix Bernstein (1878–1956) 263 48. Rademacher Tree 286 49. Walter Ledermann (born 1911) 289 50. Emmy Noether (1882–1935) 292 51. Franz Alt (born 1910) 302 52. Feodor Theilheimer (1909–2000) 304 53. Richard Brauer (1901–1977) 311 54 ...
... Felix Klein (1849–1925) had been the organizer of the flourishing mathematics in Göttingen of the 1920s. From 1935 on Courant built a graduate school for mathematics at New York University, which became a center for research in applied ...
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Chapter | 1 |
Chapter | 4 |
The Notion of Mathematician Plus Quantitative Figures | 13 |
Early Emigration | 30 |
Pretexts Forms and the Extent of Emigration and Persecution | 59 |
Obstacles to Emigration out of Germany after 1933 | 90 |
Alternative NonAmerican Host Countries | 102 |
Diminishing Ties with Germany and SelfImage of the Refugees | 149 |
Chapter 11 | 316 |
Appendix 1 | 341 |
Appendix 2 | 366 |
5 | 368 |
Translation of a Letter from Professor Karl Löwner | 372 |
Richard Courants Resignation from the German Mathematicians | 381 |
Appendix 6 | 394 |
Archives Unprinted Sources and Their Abbreviations | 415 |
Help and Xenophobia | 186 |
Acculturation Political Adaptation and the American Entrance | 230 |
The Impact of Immigration on American Mathematics | 267 |
Photographs Index and Credits | 445 |
Name Index | 461 |