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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Siegmund-Schultze, R. (Reinhard) Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009 (OCoLC)622473085 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R Siegmund-Schultze |
| ISBN: | 9780691125930 0691125937 9780691140414 0691140413 |
| OCLC Number: | 271812321 |
| Notes: | Originally published in German in 1998. This English edition contains new material not found in the original, as well as an updated bibliography. |
| 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. |
| Other Titles: | Mathematiker auf der Flucht vor Hitler. |
| Responsibility: | Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. |
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An in-depth yet accessible look at mathematics both as a scientific enterprise and human endeavour, Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany provides a vivid picture of a critical chapter in the history of international science. -- "L'Enseignement Mathematique Siegmund-Schultze has a profound and deep understanding of the culture of mathematics and mathematicians. His book conveys very well how complicated and subtle the process of emigration was ... and how much the emigre's themselves had to overcome. -- Mark Walker, Metascience Read more...
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