Mathematics in Berlin
editors: H.G . W. Begehr, H. Koch, J. Kramer, N. Schappacher, E.-J. Thiele on behalf of the Berliner Mathematische Gesellschaft.
Berlin : Birkhäuser Verlag, ©1998.
xi, 200 págs. : ilustraciones ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 3764359439, 0817659439
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 99k:01080
Contenido
- Eberhard Knobloch, Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700-1810
- David E. Rowe, Mathematics in Berlin, 1810-1933
- Jean-Pierre Friedelmeyer, Augustus Leopold Crelle, 1780-1855
- Helmut Koch, Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
- Herbert Pieper, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Heinrich Begehr and Hanfried Lenz, Jacob Steiner and synthetic geometry
- Norbert Schappacher, Gotthold Eisenstein. 16 April 1823
- 11 October 1852
- Harold M. Edwards, Kummer and Kronecker
- Reinhard Bölling, Weierstrass and some members of his circle: Kovalevskaia, Fuchs, Schwarz, Schottky
- Ralf Haubrich, Frobenius, Schur, and the Berlin algebraic tradition
- Hellmut Baumgärtel, Erhard Schmidt, John von Neumann
- Heinrich Begehr, Constantin Carathéodory (1873-1950)
- Hans Föllmer and Uwe Küchler, Richard von Mises
- David E. Rowe, Einstein in Berlin
- Norbert Schappacher, The Nazi era: the Berlin way of politicizing mathematics
- Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, The University of Berlin from reopening until 1953
- Wolfram Jehne and Erich Lamprecht, Helmut Hasse, Hermann Ludwig Schmid and their students in Berlin
- Heinrich Begehr, Freie Universität Berlin. A summary of its history
- Eberhard Knobloch, Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universität
- Herbert Kurke, Mathematics in Berlin at the Humboldt University: from 1953 until now
- Helmut Koch, The Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
- Peter Deuflhard, Fast algorithms, fast computers: the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB)
- Jürgen Sprekels, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)
- Walter Ett and Reiner Welk, Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete.