What does the arrest and release of Emile Borel and his colleagues in 1941 tell us about the German occupation of France?

DOI10.1017/S0269889711000238MaRDI QIDQ2882832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Laurent Mazliak, Glenn Shafer

Publication date 8 May 2012

Published in Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889711000238

zbMATH Keywords

Emile BorelWorld War II

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

The article gives many new insights on the short arrest of Emile Borel (and three other members of the French Academy of Science) by the German authorities during their occupation of Paris in October and November 1941. The authors give, based on documents from German and French archives (and other sources), a general context, explaining the main interests of the German occupation forces at the mentioned time, and thus, at least to some extent, explain the short durance of the arrest of the four French intellectuals. Consequently, this paper is of interest for an audience which not only includes historians of mathematics, but all interested in the history of German occupation of France.

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• Glenn Shafer -- a short biography
• Wilhelm Fiedler and his models -- the polytechnic side
• Publishing during German occupation of France. I: The case of Jacques Feldbau and the Académie des Sciences
• Émile Borel’s Denumerable Martingales, 1909–1949
• Why Louis de Broglie did not resign in 1944. An unpublished document from the new Borel de Saint-Affrique collection
• The consequences of war: Maurice Fréchet and the 1948 Lyon Symposium on Probability

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