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Author:

Siegmund-Schultze, R. (Reinhard)

Title:

Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany : individual fates and global impact / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxv, 471 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mathematicians--Germany--History--20th century.
Mathematicians--United States--History--20th century.
Mathematicians--Germany--Biography.
Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany.
Germany--History--History--1933-1945.
Germans--United States--History--20th century.
Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.
Mathematics--Germany--History--20th century.
Mathematics--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-443) and indexes.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0691140413 (pbk.)
9780691140414 (pbk.)
0691125937 (cloth)
9780691125930 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)271812321

LCCN:

2008048855

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)