Hilda Geiringer-von Mises, Charlier series, ideology, and the human side of the emancipation of applied mathematics at the University of Berlin during the 1920s

DOI10.1006/hmat.1993.1031zbMath0805.01017OpenAlexW2046169182MaRDI QIDQ1319117

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Publication date: 3 May 1994

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1993.1031

zbMATH Keywords

applied mathematicsmathematical statisticsHilda GeiringerRichard von MisesCharlier series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03) Schools of mathematics (01A72)

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“The First Mathematically Serious German School of Applied Mathematics”? ⋮ A Charlier-Parseval approach to Poisson approximation and its applications ⋮ Mathematics in wartime: private reflections of Clifford Truesdell ⋮ Richard von Mises’ work for ZAMM until his emigration in 1933 and glimpses of the later history of ZAMM ⋮ “The joy that engineers and mathematicians have come together.”¹ ⋮ Sets versus trial sequences, Hausdorff versus von Mises: ``pure mathematics prevails in the foundations of probability around 1920 ⋮ The habilitation of John von Neumann at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin: judgements on a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician in the Germany of 1927 ⋮ German mathematicians in exile in Turkey: Richard von Mises, William Prager, Hilda Geiringer, and their impact on Turkish mathematics ⋮ Probability in 1919/20: the von Mises-Pólya-controversy

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