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Ioan James celebrates the extraordinary contribution made by Jewish people in mathematics and physics, from the mathematician Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, to distinguished nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Niels Bohr. He tells the life-stories of thirty-five men and women, born in the nineteenth century, who were at the forefront of research in the closely related fields of mathematics and physics, often in the face of various kinds of anti-Semitism.
Some were caught up in the trauma of the Nazi accession to power in Germany and the Second World War. Wolfgang Pauli, described as 'greater than Einstein' by his contemporary Max Born, became a German national following the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 but was able to escape to the United States for the duration of the war. Already hampered by anti-Semitism in his native Poland, logician and mathematician Alfred Tarski found himself stranded in the USA at the outbreak of war and did not see his wife and sons until the war's end. The Italian mathematician Vito Volterra publicly opposed Mussolini's Fascist regime at considerable personal risk. Others such as George Pólya and Emmy Noether found that their left-wing political beliefs hindered their careers.
Some were caught up in the trauma of the Nazi accession to power in Germany and the Second World War. Wolfgang Pauli, described as 'greater than Einstein' by his contemporary Max Born, became a German national following the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 but was able to escape to the United States for the duration of the war. Already hampered by anti-Semitism in his native Poland, logician and mathematician Alfred Tarski found himself stranded in the USA at the outbreak of war and did not see his wife and sons until the war's end. The Italian mathematician Vito Volterra publicly opposed Mussolini's Fascist regime at considerable personal risk. Others such as George Pólya and Emmy Noether found that their left-wing political beliefs hindered their careers.
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Building on previous comparisons between Gertrude Stein's literary work and early modernist artwork, this interartistic study offers an in-depth examination of the structural and conceptual connections between Stein's literary portraits and portraits created by Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso. These portraits reveal a continuing search for a means of portraying the Self, an incessant questioning of the Self - both in terms of identity and entity - and a relentless reflection on creating the Self anew in art. In the process of searching, Stein, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso came to create portraits of the 20th century Self.
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«A wonderful taste of the lives of some great mathematicians and physicists who were either Jewish or of Jewish antecedents. The author asks searching questions about the combination of intellectual challenge, argument and upbringing that makes some ordinary Jewish families produce these brilliant scientific thinkers. We do not know the answers, but, reading these stories, we surely want to learn more.» (Rabbi Julia Neuberger)
«There is a certain nervousness about discussing the prominence of Jews in twentieth-century mathematics. This book does an excellent job in presenting an issue in the history of mathematics which is generally recognized and acknowledged by mathematicians, but hardly ever dealt with in print. A careful and authoritative account of the lives and contributions of his subjects.» (Professor Reuben Hersh, author of 'What is Mathematics, Really?')
«There is a certain nervousness about discussing the prominence of Jews in twentieth-century mathematics. This book does an excellent job in presenting an issue in the history of mathematics which is generally recognized and acknowledged by mathematicians, but hardly ever dealt with in print. A careful and authoritative account of the lives and contributions of his subjects.» (Professor Reuben Hersh, author of 'What is Mathematics, Really?')
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- PublisherPeter Lang GmbH
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 363152515X
- ISBN 13 9783631525159
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages142
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