![]() | Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact Subjects: Mathematicians -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Mathematicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Mathematicians -- Germany -- Biography; Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography; World War 1939–1945 -- Refuges -- Germany; Germany --; 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. Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze is professor of the history of mathematics at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, in Norway. |
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