Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (born April 2, 1953 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German mathematics historian.
Siegmund-Schultze studied mathematics at the Martin Luther University in Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1979 on the history of functional analysis . He wrote his doctoral thesis from 1975–1978 while studying research at the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the University of Leipzig . Then he was an assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1990, where he completed his habilitation in 1987 ( contributions to the analysis of the developmental conditions of mathematics in Fascist Germany with special consideration of the reporting system ). From 1991 to 1994 he was a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the USA. Since 2000 he has been Professor of History of Science at Agder University in Kristiansand in Norway.
Siegmund-Schultze is known for his historical work on the emigration of mathematicians from National Socialist Germany. Among other things, he dealt extensively with Richard von Mises .
Since 2000 he has been a member of the International Academy for the History of Science in Paris. In 2014 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Seoul (One hundred years after the Great War - A century of breakdowns, resumptions and fundamental changes in international mathematical communication). He has been co-editor of Historia Mathematica since 2016 .
Fonts (selection)
- Mathematician on the run from Hitler. Sources and studies on the emigration of a science , Vieweg: Braunschweig 1998; in an extended version in English translation: Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany: individual fates and global impact , Princeton University Press 2009
- Mathematical reporting in Hitler Germany: the decline of the "yearbook on the progress of mathematics , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1993 (resulting from the habilitation)
- Rockefeller and the internationalization of mathematics between the two world wars: documents and studies for the social history of mathematics in the 20th century , Birkhäuser 2001
- with Jochen Brüning, Dirk Ferus: Terror und Exil - persecution and expulsion of mathematicians from Berlin between 1933 and 1945 , German Mathematicians Association 1998 (exhibition on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin)
- Landau and Schur. Documents of a friendship until death in inhuman times , Mitteilungen DMV, Volume 19, 2011, pp. 164–173
- Göttinger Feldgraue, Einstein and the delayed perception of Emmy Noether's sentences on invariant problems of variation (1918) , Mitteilungen DMV, Volume 19, 2011, pp. 100-104, DOI: 10.1515 / dmvm-2011-0046 (free access).
- with Christopher D. Hoolings: Meeting under the integral sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War (= History of Mathematics, Vol. 44), Providence, Rhode Island 2020.
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| SURNAME | Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German math historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |