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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 88
... Position of Mathematicians, Affected and Unaffected by Persecution 66 4.D. Documents 72 4.D.1. The Pseudo-Legalism of the Methods of Expulsion 72 4.D.2. Student Boycotts as a Means of Expelling Unwanted Docents 72 4.D.3. The Racist ...
... Position toward the Events of Our Time” in November 1933 374 Appendix 3.4 Report by Artur Rosenthal (Heidelberg) from June 1935 on the Boycott of His and Heinrich Liebmann's Mathematical Courses 376 Appendix 3.5 Max Pinl—Later the ...
... positions. The present publication also deals with the fate of the victims who, like Sternberg, never regained a position commensurate with their abilities,2 or who, as the Prague mathematician Berwald, the addressee of Courant's letter ...
... position in some modern methodological work which stipulates that “there are no facts.” Thus about half of the book is primarily documentation, allowing mathematicians of today to find information about the lives, policies, and, not ...
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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 |