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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Individual Fates and Global Impact Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. Tables Table 1 Places of expulsion/persecution 66 Preface IN NOVEMBER 1934, Richard Courant, a German mathematician driven Figures and Tables • xv.
Individual Fates and Global Impact Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. Preface In November 1934, Richard Courant, a German mathematician driven out of Göttingen and now living in New York City, commented on his long-time friend Wolfgang ...
... Richard Courant's ) came from there , too . Thus the losses to Germany as a whole , not restricted to only its mathematics , are also ex- emplified by examining the fate of Sternberg and of his birthplace Breslau . However , this book ...
... Richard Courant, Hermann Weyl, and Oswald Veblen to be effec- tive in saving and shaping much of the potential of their science for future generations. Indeed, only a few of the emigrants would have accepted a conspicuous (if ...
... Richard Courant from 1933 to 1936, henceforth cited as CPP.13 Courant, the former director of the Göttingen Mathematical In- stitute and later the leader of a mathematical center (named after him to- day) with a strong leaning toward ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix 3 | 3 |
CHAPTER | 4 |
CHAPTER | 10 |
Early Emigration | 30 |
as European Phenomena | 42 |
Pretexts Forms and the Extent of Emigration and Persecution | 59 |
and Unaffected by Persecution | 66 |
S 2 Early Emigration from Austria as Exemplified | 242 |
S Case Studies | 259 |
The Impact of Immigration on American Mathematics | 267 |
Mathematics | 278 |
S 3 The Problems of Early Emigration as Exemplified | 291 |
S Case Studies | 310 |
CHAPTER 11 | 316 |
Appendix 1 | 341 |
CHAPTER 5 | 92 |
CHAPTER 6 | 104 |
S Case Studies | 167 |
CHAPTER 8 | 186 |
AntiSemitism Differences in the Science Systems | 210 |
102 | 214 |
Acculturation Political Adaptation and the American Entrance | 230 |
CHAPTER 7 | 237 |
Appendix 2 | 366 |
Translation of a Letter from Professor Karl Löwner | 372 |
Max PinlLater the Author of Pioneering | 378 |
Max Dehns Refusal to Rejoin the German Mathematicians | 393 |
Archives Unprinted Sources and Their Abbreviations | 415 |
Photographs Index and Credits | 445 |
Name Index | 461 |