Transcending Tradition
Subtitle: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture
By: edited by Birgit Bergmann, Moritz Epple, Ruti Ungar
Contributors: Epple, Moritz; Ungar, Ruti; SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783642224645
Subjects: Mathematics; History of Mathematical Sciences; History of Science; Science; History
Description: 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.