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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... York Times 215 43. Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) 220 44. Wolfgang Wasow (1909–1993) 221 45. George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) 224 46. Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896–1981) 239 47. Felix Bernstein (1878–1956) 263 48. Rademacher Tree 286 49. Walter ...
... York University, was without any doubt a key figure within emigration in mathematics. Further important historical sources are the papers of mathematicians such as von Mises, von Kármán, Birkhoff, Richardson, Weyl, Wiener,. 13The ...
... York Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced (later: Foreign) Scholars (S. Duggan) and the Harlow Shapley Refugee Files (Harvard University), which have also been used, are far from exhausted in their value as historical sources in the ...
... York Public Library, and the Courant Papers of the New York University Archives have been revisited and researched more completely,15 and the archives of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton have been visited for the first time ...
... York City), Leo Corry (Tel Aviv), Jonathan Coss (New York), Jeremy Gray (London), Peter Gruber (Vienna), Heinrich Guggenheimer (Farmingdale, New York), Per Christian Hemmer (Trondheim), Claus- Dieter Krohn (Hamburg), Hans Lausch ...
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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 |