Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture [electronic resource] /
Bergmann, Birgit.author.
Epple, Moritz.editor.
Ungar, Ruti.editor.
A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th  century and their persecution in Nazi Germany. It highlights the important role Jewish mathematicians played in all areas of mathematical culture during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, and  recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Foreword; Table of Contents; Introduction; From Exclusion to Acceptance, from Acceptance to Persecution; Jewish mathematical life before emancipation; General conditions for Jewish mathematicians; Persecutions and forced conversion; Equality: de jure, not de facto; Advancement through education; The opening of the universities; Haskalah and mathematics; Mendelssohn's family; The poison of anti-Semitism; The Berlin anti-Semitism debate; From anti-Semitic stereotypes to racist anti-Semitism; People; Before the Wilhelmine period 1780-1870
During the Wilhelmine period 1870-1919During the Weimar Republic 1919-1933; Berlin; Moses Mendelssohn and his family - Haskalah and mathematics; Mathematics in Berlin before and during the Wilhelmine Empire; Mathematics in Berlin during the Weimar Republic; Göttingen; Mathematics at Göttingen University; Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894); Adolf Hurwitz, Arthur Schoenflies, and the appointment policies of Felix Klein; Hilbert's doctoral students; The oral and formal culture of mathematics; Albert Einstein and Jacob Grommer; Emmy Noether; During the Weimar Republic
On stage and behind the scenes in Göttingen: Otto Blumenthal, Richard Courant, Emmy Noether and Paul BernaysOtto Blumenthal; Richard Courant; Emmy Noether; Paul Bernays; Bonn; Rudolf Lipschitz; Franz London; Hans Hahn; Felix Hausdorff; Otto Toeplitz; Frankfurt; The new university; Arthur Schoenflies; The Frankfurt mathematics institute; Max Dehn; Ernst Hellinger; Paul Epstein; Otto Szász; The history of mathematics seminar; Writings; Reinhold Baer; Stefan Bergmann; Paul Bernays; Salomon Bochner; Richard Brauer; Richard Courant; Max Dehn; Ferdinand Gotthold Eisenstein
William (Willy or Vilim) FellerAbraham A. Fraenkel; Immanuel Lazarus Fuchs; Hans Hahn; Felix Hausdorff; Hans Arnold Heilbronn; Kurt Hensel; Adolf Hurwitz; Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi; Fritz John; Theodore von Kármán; Leo Königsberger; Arthur Korn; Leopold Kronecker; Edmund Landau; Friedrich Wilhelm Levi; Hans Lewy; Leon Lichtenstein; Hermann Minkowski; Richard von Mises; John (Johann) von Neumann; Emmy Noether; Max Noether; Alfred Pringsheim; Ludwig Schlesinger; Arthur Schoenflies; Issai Schur; Max Simon; Ernst Steinitz; Otto Toeplitz; Aurel Friedrich Wintner; Professional Commitment
PeriodicalsCollaboration with the Springer publishing house; The German Mathematical Society and the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics; Mathematics in Culture; Popularization; The cultural role of mathematics; Academic Anti-Semitism; Anti-Semitism in mathematics; Official anti-Semitism and denunciation; Dismissal and Exile; Persecution; The German Mathematical Society (DMV); Emigration and exile; Emigration: success, obstacles, failures; Jewish Émigré Mathematicians and Germany; Returning to Germany
The German Mathematical Society (DMV) and Jewish mathematicians in the postwar period
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th  century and their persecution in Nazi Germany. It highlights the important role Jewish mathematicians played in all areas of mathematical culture during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, and  recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933.
Mathematics.
History.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
History, general.
History of Science.