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| Autore principale: | Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard.
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| Titolo: | Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany : individual fates and global impact / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. |
| Pubblicazione: | Princeton : Princeton university press, c2009. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xxv, 471 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of figures and tables. Preface. 1. The terms German-speaking mathematician, forced and voluntary emigration 2. The notion of mathematician plus quantitative figures on persecution 3. Early emigration 4. Pretexts, forms and the extent of emigration and persecution 5. Obstacles to emigration out of Germany after 1933, failed escape and death 6. Alternative (non-American) host countries 7. Diminishing ties with Germany and self-image of the refugees 8. The American reaction to immigration: help and xenophobia 9. Acculturation, political adaptation and the American entrance into the war 10. The impact of immigration on American mathematics 11. Epilogue: The postwar relationship of German and American mathematicians. Appendix 1: Lists of emigrated (after 1933), murdered and otherwise persecuted German-speaking mathematicians (as of 2008). Appendix 2: Excerpt from a letter by George David Birkhoff from Paris (1928) to his colleague-mathematicians at Harvard concerning the possibility of or desirability to hire foreigners. Appendix 3.1: Report compiled by Harald Bohr together with different German friends in May 1933 concerning the present conditions in German universities, in particular with regard to mathematics and theoretical physics. Appendix 3.2: Translation of a letter from professor Karl Lowner of the University of Prague to professor Louis L. Silverman (Dartmouth College) dated August 2, 1933. Appendix 3.3: Richard von Mises's Position toward the events of our time in November 1933. Appendix 3.4: Report by Artur Rosenthal (Heidelberg) from June 1935 on the boycott of his and Heinrich Liebmann's Mathematical courses. Appendix 3.5: Max Pinl, later the author of pioneering reports (1969-72) on mathematical refugees, in a letter to Hermann Weyl on the situation in Czechoslovakia immediately after the Munich dictate of September 29, 1938. Appendix 4.1: A letter by Emmy Noether of January 1935 to the emergency committee in New York regarding her scientific and political interests during emigration. Appendix 4.2: Richard Courant's resignation from the German mathematicians' association DMV in 1935. Appendix 4.3: Von Mises in his diary about his second emigration, from Turkey to the USA, in 1939. Appendix 4.4: Hermann Weyl to Harlow Shapley on June 5, 1943, concerning the problems of the immigrant from Göttingen, Felix Bernstein. Appendix 5.1: Richard Courant in October 1945 to the American authorities who were responsible for German scientific reparation. Appendix 5.2: Max Dehn's refusal to rejoin the German mathematicians' association DMV in 1948. Appendix 6: Memoirs for my children (1933/1988) by Peter Thullen. Archives, unprinted sources and their abbreviations. References. Photographs index and credits. Subject index. Name index |
| ISBN: | 9780691140414 |
| Altri autori: | Birkhoff, George David, 1884-1944.
Bohr, Harald, 1887-1951. Löwner, Karl. Von Mises, Richard, 1883-1953. Rosenthal, Artur. Pinl, Max. Noether, Emmy, 1882-1935. Courant, Richard, 1888-1972. Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955. Dehn, Max. Thullen, Peter. |
| Discipline: | Matematica--Studi specifici. Politica e scienza--Studi. |
| Luoghi: | Germania. |
| Keyword: | Testi e Carteggi--Matematica. Testi e Carteggi--Scienze sociali. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 18113 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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