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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R Siegmund-Schultze |
| ISBN: | 9780691125930 0691125937 9780691140414 0691140413 |
| OCLC Number: | 271812321 |
| Description: | xxv, 471 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The terms "German-speaking mathematician," "forced," and "voluntary emigration" -- The notion of "mathematician" plus quantitative figures on persecution -- Early emigration -- Pretexts, forms, and the extent of emigration and persecution -- Obstacles to emigration out of Germany after 1933, failed escape, and death -- Alternative (non-American) host countries -- Diminishing ties with Germany and self-image of the refugees -- The American reaction to immigration : help and xenophobia -- Acculturation, political adaptation, and the American entrance into the war -- The impact of immigration on American mathematics -- Epilogue : the postwar relationship of German and American mathematicians. |
| Responsibility: | Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. |
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- Mathematicians -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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- Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945.
- Germans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Mathematics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Mathematics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
