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Author:   Heinrich Begehr ,  Helmut Koch ,  Jürg Kramer ,  Norbert Schappacher
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   1998 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9783764359430

ISBN 10:   3764359439
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   21 July 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700-1810.- Mathematics in Berlin, 1810-1933.- 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 Caratheodory.- 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 Universitat Berlin, a summary of its history.- Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universitat.- 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 fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete.- Sources of photographs.- Addresses of authors and editors.

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Much more than a souvenir booklet; experts provide not only very readable thumbnail sketches of a wide range of topics, but also bibliographies which make this a substantial introduction to further literature. <p>--Mathematical Reviews

Much more than a souvenir booklet; experts provide not only very readable thumbnail sketches of a wide range of topics, but also bibliographies which make this a substantial introduction to further literature. --Mathematical Reviews

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