1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463799303321

Autore

Segal Sanford L. <1937->

Titolo

Mathematicians under the Nazis / / Sanford L. Segal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-691-16463-0

1-4008-6538-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (568 pages)

Disciplina

510/.943/09043

Soggetti

Mathematicians - Germany - History - 20th century

Mathematics - Germany - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. Why Mathematics? -- CHAPTER TWO. The Crisis in Mathematics -- CHAPTER THREE. The German Academic Crisis -- CHAPTER FOUR. Three Mathematical Case Studies -- CHAPTER FIVE. Academic Mathematical Life -- CHAPTER SIX. Mathematical Institutions -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Ludwig Bieberbach and "Deutsche Mathematik" -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Germans and Jews -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Contrary to popular belief--and despite the expulsion, emigration, or death of many German mathematicians--substantial mathematics was produced in Germany during 1933-1945. In this landmark social history of the mathematics community in Nazi Germany, Sanford Segal examines how the Nazi years affected the personal and academic lives of those German mathematicians who continued to work in Germany. The effects of the Nazi regime on the lives of mathematicians ranged from limitations on foreign contact to power struggles that rattled entire institutions, from changed work patterns to military draft, deportation, and death. Based on extensive archival research, Mathematicians under the Nazis shows how these mathematicians, variously motivated, reacted to the period's intense political pressures.



It details the consequences of their actions on their colleagues and on the practice and organs of German mathematics, including its curricula, institutions, and journals. Throughout, Segal's focus is on the biographies of individuals, including mathematicians who resisted the injection of ideology into their profession, some who worked in concentration camps, and others (such as Ludwig Bieberbach) who used the "Aryanization" of their profession to further their own agendas. Some of the figures are no longer well known; others still tower over the field. All lived lives complicated by Nazi power. Presenting a wealth of previously unavailable information, this book is a large contribution to the history of mathematics--as well as a unique view of what it was like to live and work in Nazi Germany.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449927803321

Autore

Gesteland Richard R

Titolo

Cross-cultural business behavior [[electronic resource] ] : marketing, negotiating, sourcing and managing across cultures / / Richard R. Gesteland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Copenhagen, Denmark, : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2002

ISBN

87-630-0996-X

Edizione

[3rd [rev.] ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Disciplina

395.52

Soggetti

Business etiquette

Export marketing

Intercultural communication

Negotiation in business

National characteristics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-347).