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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 84
... Nazis by Emigrants 162 7.D.7. Self-Selection by Emigrants 165 7.S. Case Studies 167 7.S.1. Richard Courant's Gradual Estrangement from Germany 167 7.S.2. Concern for the Future of German Applied Mathematics and the Young Generation ...
... Nazi Period (First Generation) 343 1.2. List of German-Speaking Mathematicians Who Were Murdered or Driven to Suicide by the Nazis 358 1.3. List of German-Speaking Mathematicians Persecuted in Other Manners (Includes Teachers of ...
... Nazi rule for science and mathematics. In fact, the censorship and the dismissal of the Jewish author Sternberg exemplify the losses for German mathematics due to Nazi interference. Breslau, the place of Sternberg's dismissal, became a ...
... Nazi-dominated territory between 1933 and 1945 while still working as mathematicians. Within this population the focus is on the emigrants rather than on those victims re- maining in Germany. Motivations for this restriction and a ...
... Nazis. Particularly helpful was a list of doctoral students with bio-bibliographical information recently published by Renate Tobies, showing especially that the fate of mathematics schoolteachers under the Nazis is notoriously ...
תוכן
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 |