Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany

Abraham A. Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in pre-Second World War Germany, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development of modern mathematics. A friend of Albert Einstein, he knew many of the era's acclaimed mathematicians personally. He moved to Israel (then Palesti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fraenkel, Abraham A. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Temas:
Mathematics.
History.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword to the 2015 English edition by Menachem Magidor
  • Foreword to the 1967 German edition by Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
  • 1.My Ancestors
  • 2. Childhood and Adolescence in Munich (1891-1910)
  • 3.As a Student at Prussian Universities (1910-1914)
  • 4.As a Soldier in the First World War (1914-1919)
  • 5.As a Professor in Marburg and Kiel (1919-1929)
  • 6. Epilogue (1929-1933)
  • Afterword: 1933-1965 by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
  • Family trees
  • Bibliography of works by Abraham A. Fraenkel
  • Index.

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