Mathematics in Berlin
by Begehr, Heinrich G. W.; Koch, Helmut; Kramer, Jurg; Schappacher, Norbert; Thiele, Ernst-jochenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-06-01
Publisher(s): Birkhauser
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Summary
This book is a font of information for readers interested in the mathematical past and present of Berlin. It presents a comprehensive, condensed overview of mathematical activity in Berlin, beginning with the foundation of the Academy by Leibniz and carrying over almost to the present day. Many towering figures in mathematical history worked in Berlin, and thus most of the chapters of this book are essentially concise biographies of these luminaries. The presentations are held together and complemented by a few articles examining the overall development of entire periods of scientific life at Berlin. Chapters cover the foundation of the University of Berlin, the "Golden Age" of mathematics (spanning the second half of the 19th century), the Nazi period, the development of mathematics in East and West Berlin during the political division of the city, and the merging of the formerly separated mathematical communities with the reunification of Germany.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700-1810 | p. 1 |
| Mathematics in Berlin, 1810-1933 | p. 9 |
| Augustus Leopold Crelle | p. 27 |
| Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet | p. 33 |
| Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | p. 41 |
| Jacob Steiner and Synthetic Geometry | p. 49 |
| Gotthold Eisenstein | p. 55 |
| Kummer and Kronecker | p. 61 |
| Weierstrass and some members of his circle: Kovalevskaia, Fuchs, Schwarz, Schottky | p. 71 |
| Frobenius, Schur, and the Berlin Algebraic Tradition | p. 83 |
| Erhard Schmidt, John von Neumann | p. 97 |
| Constantin Caratheodory | p. 105 |
| Richard von Mises | p. 111 |
| Einstein in Berlin | p. 117 |
| The Nazi era: the Berlin way of politicizing mathematics | p. 127 |
| The University of Berlin from Reopening until 1953 | p. 137 |
| Helmut Hasse, Hermann Ludwig Schmid and their students in Berlin | p. 143 |
| Freie Universitat Berlin, a summary of its history | p. 151 |
| Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universitat | p. 161 |
| Mathematics in Berlin at the Humboldt University: from 1953 until now | p. 169 |
| The Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR | p. 177 |
| Fast Algorithms, Fast Computers: The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB) | p. 183 |
| Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) | p. 185 |
| Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete | p. 189 |
| Index | p. 191 |
| Sources of photographs | p. 197 |
| Addresses of authors and editors | p. 199 |
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