Thegleichschaltung of mathematical societies in nazi germany

Mehrtens, Herbert; Kingsbury, V

doi:10.1007/bf03025192

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“…For the period 1931-1935 the numbers are 28, 13, and 25, and meanwhile the development may well have become even more unfortunate for us. (quoted in Siegmund-Schultze 1997) Mehrtens & Kingsbury (1989) report that the number of math students at G öttingen decreased from 432 in 1932 to 37 in 1939.…”

Section: G öTtingenmentioning

confidence: 97%

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2010

Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech.

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Section: G öTtingenmentioning

confidence: 97%

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2010

Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech.

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“…For this material see especially "Jahresbericht der DMV", 43 (1934), pp. 80-82, also [55], Mehrtens [135,137]. 57 As to the "Akademieerlass" and its consequences, see e.g.…”

Section: Professional Services and Their Terminationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Otto Blumenthal (1876–1944) in retrospect

Butzer¹,

Volkmann²

2006

Journal of Approximation Theory

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This paper treats in detail the life and work of Otto Blumenthal, one of the most tragic figures of the 188 emigré mathematicians from Germany and the Nazi-occupied continent. Blumenthal, the first doctoral student of David Hilbert, was crucial in the publication and communication system of German mathematics between the two World Wars. There has been an unusual revival of interest in his mathematical work in the last three decades. Thus his work on orthogonal polynomials whose zeros are dense in intervals, called the Blumenthal theorem by T.S. Chihara (1972), lead to over two dozen recent papers in the field. The Blumenthal-Nevai theorem, with applications to scattering theory in physics, is one example. In modern work on Hilbert modular forms, increasingly being called Hilbert-Blumenthal modular forms, many recent papers even contain the word Blumenthal in their titles. This paper contains 212 references.

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“…Prandtl told von Kármán at that time that "he was not a Nazi, but had to defend his country" (see von Kármán & Edson 1967). After the war, Prandtl described himself as an "unpolitical German," according to Mehrtens & Kingsbury (1989).…”

Section: Ludwig Prandtlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The United States benefited tremendously from the resulting influx of theseémigrés, especially regarding the development of applied mathematics. Indeed, their immediate contribution to the war against Germany was substantial (see Greenberg & Goldstein 1983) Mehrtens & Kingsbury (1989) report that the number of math students at Göttingen decreased from 432 in 1932 to 37 in 1939.…”

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confidence: 99%