Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars
Philanthropies funded by the Rockefeller family have been 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
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Edited by Eberhard Knobloch and Erhard Scholz Editorial Board: K. Andersen, Aarhus D. Barkan, Pasadena H.J.M. Bos, Utrecht U. Bottazzini, Roma J.Z. Buchwald, Cambridge, Mass. K. Chemla, Paris 5.5. Demidov, Moskva E.A. Fellmann, Basel M. Folkerts, Munchen P. Galison, Cambridge, Mass. I. Grattan-Guinness, London J. Gray, Milton Keynes
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Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars Documents and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century
Springer Basel AG
Author's address: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Agder University College Department of Mathematics Serviceboks 422 N-4604 Kristiansand Norway e-mail: [email protected]
A ClP catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA Deutsche Bibliothek Cataloging-in-Publication Data Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard: Rockefeller and the internationalization of mathematics between two world wars: documents and studies for the social history of mathematics in the 20th century / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. - Basel; Boston; Berlin: Birkhauser, 2001 (Science networks; Vol. 25) ISBN 978-3-0348-9505-7 ISBN 978-3-0348-8289-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-0348-8289-7
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© 2001 Springer Basel AG Originally published by Birkhauser Verlag in 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 15t edition 2001 Cover design: Micha Lotrovsky, Therwil, Switzerland Cover illustration: John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. [Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center], David Hilbert and Hermann Weyl [Courtesy of Natasha Artin-Brunswickl Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp. TCF 00 ISBN 978-3-0348-9505-7 987654321
I dedicate this book to my daughters Hanna and Ulrike, in fond memory of our halfyear in Boston 1992/93!
Preface and Acknowledgments
This book is mainly based on research done at the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAe) in North Tarrytown / Sleepy Hollow (N.Y.) in 1992 and 1998, which was funded by the RAC. The research done at that time has been complemented, and a first version of the book prepared, during longer visits to the United States (Harvard University and University of New Hampshire) from 1991 until 1994, and in 1997, when I was an international Feodor-Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander-von-HumboldtStiftung (Bonn). Additional funding for archival studies in G6ttingen, New
