Mathematicians under the nazis

Sanford L. Segal

552 pages, parution le 23/07/2003

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Résumé

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 affected the personal and academic lives of those German mathematicians who continued to work in Germany.

The effects of the Nazi regime on the lives of mathematicians ranged from limitations on foreign contact to power struggles that rattled entire institutions, from changed work patterns to military draft, deportation, and death. Based on extensive archival research, Mathematicians under the Nazis shows how these mathematicians, variously motivated, reacted to the period's intense political pressures. It details the consequences of their actions on their colleagues and on the practice and organs of German mathematics, including its curricula, institutions, and journals. Throughout, Segal's focus is on the biographies of individuals, including mathematicians who resisted the injection of ideology into their profession, some who worked in concentration camps, and others (such as Ludwig Bieberbach) who used the "Aryanization" of their profession to further their own agendas. Some of the figures are no longer well known; others still tower over the field. All lived lives complicated by Nazi power.

Presenting a wealth of previously unavailable information, this book is a large contribution to the history of mathematics--as well as a unique view of what it was like to live and work in Nazi Germany.

Why mathematics ?
The crisis in mathematics
The German academic crisis
Three mathematical case studies
Academic mathematical life
Mathematical institutions
Ludwig Bieberbach and "Deutsche Mathematik"
Germans and Jews

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

L'auteur - Sanford L. Segal

Sanford L. Segal is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rochester and the author of Nine Introductions in Complex Analysis.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Sanford L. Segal
Parution	23/07/2003
Nb. de pages	552
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	970g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691004518
ISBN13	978-0-691-00451-8