Zionist Internationalism through Number Theory: Edmund Landau at the Opening of the Hebrew University in 1925

DOI10.1017/S0269889710000177zbMath1225.01035OpenAlexW2093308770WikidataQ61440444 ScholiaQ61440444MaRDI QIDQ3087812

Leo Corry, Norbert Schappacher

Publication date: 17 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889710000177

zbMATH Keywords

number theoryEdmund LandauHebrew University of JerusalemHebrew mathematical terminologyideology of pure mathematicsZionist ideology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of number theory (11-03) History of mathematics at specific universities (01A73)

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