Mathematicians under the Nazis / / Sanford L. Segal.

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 landmark social history of the mathematics community in Nazi Germany, Sanford Segal examines how the Nazi years affecte...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2003
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.) :; 20 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Why Mathematics?
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Crisis in Mathematics
  • CHAPTER THREE. The German Academic Crisis
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Three Mathematical Case Studies
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Academic Mathematical Life
  • CHAPTER SIX. Mathematical Institutions
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Ludwig Bieberbach and "Deutsche Mathematik"
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Germans and Jews
  • APPENDIX
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX