Description: 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 influx of these brilliant thinkers to other nations profoundly reconfigured the mathematics world and vaulted the United States into a new leadership role in mathematics research. Based on archival sources that have never been examined before, the book discusses the preeminent emigrant mathematicians of the period, including Emmy Noether, John von Neumann, Hermann Weyl, and many others. The author explores the mechanisms of the expulsion of mathematicians from Germany, the emigrants' acculturation to their new host countries, and the fates of those mathematicians forced to stay behind. The book reveals the alienation and solidarity of the emigrants, and investigates the global development of mathematics as a consequence of their radical migration. New Condition!!
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Subject Area: World History, Science, Mathematics, History, World War 2, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Precision Engineering, Process Engineering, Technology, Applied Mathematics
Publication Name: Mathematics Fleeing from Nazi Germany
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Mathematics, History, Cultural Studies, Wars, World War 2, Science, Engineering & Technology, Books, Education
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Author: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education, A Levels, Comprehensive School
Features: Illustrated
Level: Technical, Business, Proficiency, Advanced, Intermediate, Beginner
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Number of Pages: 504 Pages
