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Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany : individual fates and global impact / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze.
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TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.Description: 471 p. : illISBN: - 9780691125930
- 9780691140414
- Mathematicians -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Mathematicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mathematicians -- Germany
- Mathematicians -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Germany
- Germans -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mathematics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Mathematics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945
- QA27 S53 M 2009
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | QA27 S53 M 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000377855 |
Originally published in German in 1998. This English edition contains new material not found in the original, as well as an updated bibliography.
The terms "German-speaking mathematician," "forced," and "voluntary emigration" -- The notion of "mathematician" plus quantitative figures on persecution -- Early emigration -- Pretexts, forms, and the extent of emigration and persecution -- Obstacles to emigration out of Germany after 1933, failed escape, and death -- Alternative (non-American) host countries -- Diminishing ties with Germany and self-image of the refugees -- The American reaction to immigration : help and xenophobia -- Acculturation, political adaptation, and the American entrance into the war -- The impact of immigration on American mathematics -- Epilogue : the postwar relationship of German and American mathematicians.
YT2025 M08
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