Mathematics in Berlin

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700–1810

   • Eberhard Knobloch

   Pages 1-8

3. Mathematics in Berlin, 1810–1933

   • David E. Rowe

   Pages 9-26

4. Augustus Leopold Crelle, 1780–1855

   • Jean-Pierre Friedelmeyer

   Pages 27-32

5. Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet

   • Helmut Koch

   Pages 33-39

6. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

   • Herbert Pieper

   Pages 41-48

7. Jacob Steiner and Synthetic Geometry

   • Heinrich Begehr, Hanfried Lenz

   Pages 49-54

8. Gotthold Eisenstein

   • Norbert Schappacher

   Pages 55-60

9. Kummer and Kronecker

   • Harold M. Edwards

   Pages 61-69

10. Weierstrass and some members of his circle: Kovalevskaia, Fuchs, Schwarz, Schottky

    • Reinhard Bölling

    Pages 71-82

11. Frobenius, Schur, and the Berlin Algebraic Tradition

    • Ralf Haubrich

    Pages 83-96

12. Erhard Schmidt, John von Neumann

    • Hellmut Baumgärtel

    Pages 97-104

13. Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950)

    • Heinrich Begehr

    Pages 105-109

14. Richard von Mises

    • Hans Föllmer, Uwe Küchler

    Pages 111-116

15. Einstein in Berlin

    • David E. Rowe

    Pages 117-125

16. The Nazi era: the Berlin way of politicizing mathematics

    • Norbert Schappacher

    Pages 127-136

17. The University of Berlin from Reopening until 1953

    • Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

    Pages 137-141

18. Helmut Hasse, Hermann Ludwig Schmid and their students in Berlin

    • Wolfram Jehne, Erich Lamprecht

    Pages 143-149

19. Freie Universität Berlin

    • Heinrich Begehr

    Pages 151-160

20. Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universität

    • Eberhard Knobloch

    Pages 161-167

This little book is conceived as a service to mathematicians attending the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. It presents a comprehensive, condensed overview of mathematical activity in Berlin, from Leibniz almost to the present day (without, however, including biographies of living mathematicians). Since many towering figures in mathematical history worked in Berlin, most of the chapters of this book are concise biographies. These are held together by a few survey articles presenting the overall development of entire periods of scientific life at Berlin. Overlaps between various chapters and differences in style between the chap­ ters were inevitable, but sometimes this provided opportunities to show different aspects of a single historical event - for instance, the Kronecker-Weierstrass con­ troversy. The book aims at readability rather than scholarly completeness. There are no footnotes, only references to the individual bibliographies of each chapter. Still, we do hope that the texts brought together here, and written by the various authors for this volume, constitute a solid introduction to the history of Berlin mathematics.

• Algebra
• Geschichte der Mathematik
• History of Mathematics
• Stochastics
• calculus
• geometry
• mathematics

"Much more than a souvenir booklet; experts provide not only very readable thumbnail sketches of a wide range of topics, but also bibliographies which make this a substantial introduction to further literature."

--Mathematical Reviews

• Fachbereich Mathematik u. Informatik Mathematisches Institut (WE 1), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Heinrich Begehr

• Institut für Mathematik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Helmut Koch, Jürg Kramer

• U.F.R. de mathématique et d’informatique, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Cedex, France

  Norbert Schappacher

• Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Ernst-Jochen Thiele

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