A Dream of Göttingen

Alexander Soifer
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Alexander Soifer: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

Chapter Chapter 20 in The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden, 2015, pp 181-198 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Most of all, Van der Waerden desired a professorship at Göttingen. For this task he recruited Nazi helpers, Wilhelm Süss and Helmut Hasse. Was it fitting for a “strong opponent of the Nazi regime” to seek help of the Nazis? Is it fitting for us, mathematicians, to ignore—or be ignorant—of the Nazi roots of our beloved Mathematics Institute at Oberwolfach?

Keywords: Moral Standing; Class Field Theory; Party Membership; Nazi Regime; Strong Opponent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_20

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