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

DOI10.1007/s00283-012-9280-5zbMath1251.01001OpenAlexW1970271030MaRDI QIDQ444047

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 GermanyGöttingen school of mathematicsOtto NeugebauerRichard Courant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian mathematics ⋮ In defence of geometrical algebra ⋮ Otto Neugebauer’s Vision for Rewriting the History of Ancient Mathematics ⋮ From Graz to Göttingen: Neugebauer’s Early Intellectual Journey ⋮ What is ``geometric algebra, and what has it been in historiography? ⋮ Transforming tradition: Richard Courant in Göttingen

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• On the need to rewrite the history of Greek mathematics
• "Jewish Mathematics" at Gottingen in the Era of Felix Klein
• Otto Neugebauer: Reminiscences and Appreciation
• Philolaos in Limbo, or: What Happened to the Pythagoreans?
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