Title | Mathematics in Berlin [electronic resource] / edited by Heinrich Begehr, Helmut Koch, Jรผrg Kramer, Norbert Schappacher, Ernst-Jochen Thiele |
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Imprint | Basel : Birkhรคuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8787-8 |
Descript | 216 p. 51 illus. online resource |
Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700โ1810 -- Mathematics in Berlin, 1810โ1933 -- Augustus Leopold Crelle -- Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet -- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi -- Jacob Steiner and Synthetic Geometry -- Gotthold Eisenstein -- Kummer and Kronecker -- Weierstrass and some members of his circle: Kovalevskaia, Fuchs, Schwarz, Schottky -- Frobenius, Schur, and the Berlin Algebraic Tradition -- Erhard Schmidt, John von Neumann -- Constantin Carathรฉodory -- Richard von Mises -- Einstein in Berlin -- The Nazi era: the Berlin way of politicizing mathematics -- The University of Berlin from Reopening until 1953 -- Helmut Hasse, Hermann Ludwig Schmid and their students in Berlin -- Freie Universitรคt Berlin, a summary of its history -- Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universitรคt -- Mathematics in Berlin at the Humboldt University: from 1953 until now -- The Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR -- Fast Algorithms, Fast Computers: The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB) -- Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) -- Zentralblatt fรผr Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete -- Sources of photographs -- Addresses of authors and editors