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 63
... Social Hierarchies, Traditions at Home, and Internationalization in Mathematics 46 3.D.5. The American Interest in Immigration (Pull-Factor) 47 3.D.6. The Start of Economic Problems in America around 1930 Foreshadowing Later Problems ...
... Social Reform, in Particular for New Deal Positions 249 9.D.10. Pressure to Adapt Politically and Political Mistrust against Immigrants on the Part of the Americans 250 9.D.11. Waning Political Restraint on Immigrants after Obtaining ...
... social and organizational affairs of his or her discipline. Motives for dealing with the particular social and historical problem of scientific emigration in this book are manifold, recent political events being among them. Given the ...
... (social demagogy, economy, antimodernism, and militarism) between the Italian and German regimes in the 1930s. I do not use that term, even in contexts where the indisputable differences between the two regimes (differences in ...
... social conditions for mathematics in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Invaluable help with respect to language and content, as well as personal encouragement, came from June Barrow- Green (London), and my daughter Ulrike Romberg (Berlin) ...
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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 |