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Mathematicians under the Nazis /

"Contrary to popular belief - and despite the expulsion, emigration, or death of many German mathematicians - substantial mathematics was produced in Germany during 1933-1945. In this social history of the mathematics community in Nazi Germany, Sanford Segal examines how the Nazi years affected...

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Autor principal: Segal, Sanford L., 1937-2010
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Why Mathematics?
  • Ch. 2. The Crisis in Mathematics
  • Ch. 3. The German Academic Crisis
  • Ch. 4. Three Mathematical Case Studies
  • The Suss Book Project
  • The Winkelmann Succession
  • Hasse's Appointment at Gottingen
  • Ch. 5. Academic Mathematical Life
  • Erich Bessel-Hagen and the General Atmosphere
  • Dozentenschaft Reports
  • Foreign Contact and Travel
  • Mathematical Camps
  • Students and Faculty Before and During Wartime
  • The Value of Mathematics in the Nazi State
  • Secondary and Elementary Mathematics
  • The Wartime Drafting of Scientists
  • Ch. 6. Mathematical Institutions
  • The Case of Otto Blumenthal
  • The Lachmann Paper Incident
  • Max Steck and the "Lambert Project."