The habilitation of John von Neumann at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin: judgements on a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician in the Germany of 1927

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2009.04.002zbMath1200.01022WikidataQ56050003 ScholiaQ56050003MaRDI QIDQ973454

Ulf Hashagen

Publication date: 31 May 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2009.04.002

zbMATH Keywords

Issai Schur; John von Neumann; Richard von Mises; axiomatic set theory; Erhard Schmidt; Humboldt university of Berlin; mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics; spectral theory of symmetric linear operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

01A73: History of mathematics at specific universities

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