Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

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Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars (eBook, PDF)

Document and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century

Beschreibung

Philanthropic societies funded by the Rockefeller family were prominent in the social history of the twentieth century, for their involvement in medicine and applied science. This book provides the first detailed study of their relatively brief but nonetheless influential foray into the field of mathematics.

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Autor

Siegmund-Schultze, R., Agder University College, Kritiansand, Norway

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel
• Seitenzahl: 341
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783034882897
• Artikelnr.: 53134420

Rezensionen

"...As mathematicians like George David Birkhoff and Oswald Veblen came increasingly to advise The Rockefeller Foundation's International Education Board (IEB) officials, mathematics began to benefit from Rockefeller philanthropy. Moreover, given the international focus of the Board, this philanthropy contributed in complex ways to the internationalization of science in general and of mathematics in particular. It is precisely this thorny historical problem of the Foundation's role in the internationalization of mathematics between the two World Wars that Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze confronts in his meticulously researched and abundantly illustrated book... The book closes with a mere three-page "Epilogue" that could rather have been a true concluding chapter to a book that raises so many fascinating and complex issues. Still, Siegmund-Schultze has provided us with a wealth of data, a bounty of archival material, and much to think about as we continue to grapple with the social history of mathematics in the twentieth century." -- MAA Online