Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany
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Abstract algebra
Adolf Hitler
American Mathematical Society
Anschluss
Applied mathematics
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Brown University
Career
Case study
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Czechoslovakia
Denazification
Deutsche Mathematik
Eberhard Hopf
Emigration
Emil Julius Gumbel
Emmy Noether
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Felix Bernstein (mathematician)
Foundations of mathematics
Fritz Herzog
Fritz John
Germans
Hans Freudenthal
Hans Reichenbach
Harvard University
Heinz Hopf
Hermann Weyl
Immigration
Immigration policy
Immigration to the United States
Internment
Issai Schur
James Franck
Jews
Kurt Grelling
Lecture
Lipman Bers
Mathematical statistics
Mathematician
Mathematics
Mathematische Annalen
Max Dehn
McCarthyism
Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
Nazism
New York University
Norbert Wiener
Number theory
Oswald Veblen
Pension
Persecution
Philosopher
Politics
Pretext
Princeton University
Privatdozent
Publication
Pure mathematics
Racism
Refugee
Richard Brauer
Richard Courant
Richard von Mises
Salary
Scientist
Soviet Union
The Other Hand
Unemployment
Von Mises
World War II
Zionism
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- ISBN 9780691140414
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze is professor of the history of mathematics at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, in Norway.
