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Author Hollings, Christopher D

Title Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War
Published Providence : American Mathematical Society, 1920

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Description 1 online resource (360 p.)
Series History of Mathematics Ser. ; v.44
History of Mathematics Ser
Contents Intro -- Cover -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Conventions for Transliteration from Cyrillic Characters -- Part 1 . Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Four Strategies, the Prehistory of the Oslo Congress, and Sources -- 1.1. Four strategies for international mathematical communication -- 1.2. The prehistory of the Oslo congress -- 1.3. Sources -- Part 2 . The Politics of the Congress -- Chapter 2. The Norwegian Hosts: The Newcomer with Historical Traditions -- 2.1. Prehistory of the ICM in Scandinavia
2.2. 1928: Norwegians enter the international stage in new numbers -- 2.3. The 1932 Zurich congress and the Norwegian bid for 1936 -- 2.4. The 1929 Abel celebrations in Oslo -- 2.5. Setting up the organisation of the 1936 ICM -- 2.6. Efforts to secure funding and advertise the event -- 2.7. Promoting tourism in Norway -- 2.8. Setting up the programme of plenary speakers -- 2.9. The outlook and international ambitions of the organisers -- 2.10. How Oslo superseded Princeton for one week -- Chapter 3. The German Delegation: Swaying between Expansionism and Isolationism
3.1. Preparation for the congress -- 3.2. German attendance and Lietzmann's reports -- 3.3. Further consequences of the congress for the German delegates -- Chapter 4. The Russian Withdrawal: Isolationism out of Fear and Ideology -- 4.1. A conspicuous absence -- 4.2. Political obstacles -- 4.3. Russian and Soviet mathematics to 1936 -- 4.4. Attempts to participate in Oslo -- 4.5. After Oslo -- Chapter 5. The Italian Case: Mathematics as a Victim of World Politics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Italian mathematicians and the early ICMs -- 5.3. Italian mathematics under Mussolini
Chapter 6. The Congress in the Norwegian Dailies -- 6.1. Mathematical refugees and other political and social issues -- 6.2. Commentary on Appendix A -- Chapter 7. International Mathematics Shortly Before and After the Second World War: A Glimpse Ahead and Back Again -- Part 3 . The Mathematics of the Congress -- Chapter 8. Assessing the Mathematics of the Congress -- 8.1. Developments in mathematical communication -- 8.2. Measuring mathematical impact -- 8.3. Languages and geographical distribution of speakers -- 8.4. Analysis of content: thematic restrictions -- Chapter 9. The Plenary Lectures
9.1. Evaluating the plenary lectures -- 9.2. C. Størmer: "Programme for the quantitative discussion of electron orbits in the field of a magnetic dipole, with application to cosmic rays and kindred phenomena" -- 9.3. R. Fueter: "The theory of regular functions of a quaternion variable" -- 9.4. É. Cartan: "Some insights into the role of Sophus Lie's theory of groups in the development of modern geometry" -- 9.5. C. L. Siegel: "Analytic theory of quadratic forms" -- 9.6. O. Veblen: "Spinors and projective geometry"
Summary This book examines the historically unique conditions under which the International Congress of Mathematicians took place in Oslo in 1936. This Congress was the only one on this level to be held during the period of the Nazi regime in Germany (1933-1945) and after the wave of emigrations from it. Relying heavily on unpublished archival sources, the authors consider the different goals of the various participants in the Congress, most notably those of the Norwegian organizers, and the Nazi-led German delegation. They also investigate the reasons for the absence of the proposed Soviet and Italia
Notes Description based upon print version of record
9.7. J. Nielsen: "Some methods and results from the topology of surface transformations"
SUBJECT International Congress of Mathematicians (1936 : Oslo, Norway) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2020001390
International Congress of Mathematicians -- History
International Congress of Mathematicians. fast (OCoLC)fst01406123
Subject Mathematics -- Congresses -- History -- 20th century
Mathematics -- Congresses.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard
ISBN 9781470455156
1470455153