Otto Neugebauer and Richard Courant: on exporting the Göttingen approach to the history of mathematics

DOI10.1007/S00283-012-9280-5MaRDI QIDQ444047zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors David E. Rowe

Publication date 13 August 2012

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-012-9280-5

zbMATH Keywords

Babylonian and Greek mathematicsemigration of mathematicians from Nazi GermanyOtto NeugebauerRichard CourantGöttingen school of mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Historiography (01A85)

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