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Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany : Individual Fates and Global Impact /

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...

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Autor principal: Siegmund-Schultze, R. (Reinhard)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 inf.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (504 pages): illustrations, portraits
ISBN:9781400831401