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 48
... Anti-Semitism as European Phenomena 42 3.D.3. Personal Risks with Early Emigration 45 3.D.4. The Ambiguous Interconnection between Social Hierarchies, Traditions at Home, and Internationalization in Mathematics 46 3.D.5. The American ...
... Anti-Semitism 77 4.D.6. Cheating Emigrants out of Their Pensions 79 4.D.7. Increasing Restrictions Imposed upon “Non-Aryan” Students 80 4.D.8. Political Position of Emigrants before 1933: German Nationalism, Illusions, and General Lack ...
... Anti-Semitism, Differences in the Science Systems, Professional Jealousy 210 8.D.8. Decline of Xenophobia in Connection with Political Events on the Eve of World War II 213 8.S. Case Studies 214 8.S.1. The Case of the Female Contents • vii.
... Anti-Semitism in the USA 218 8.S.3.1. Consideration of anti-Semitism in the policies of the relief organizations 218 8.S.3.2. Examples of American nationalist and racist propaganda aimed at immigrants 219 8.S.3.3. Problems in ...
... anti-Semitism) do not matter, in order to prevent any possible misunderstanding. In contrast to Pinl's publications of 1969–72 on mathematicians in Hitler's Germany, the “reasons” (or pretexts) for dismissal and emigration will be named ...
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 |