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Heritage & History of Springer Math

Springer began publishing books in higher mathematics around 1920, with series such as "Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften" founded by Richard Courant. Since its inception, many publications have becoming genuine classics. Join us in celebrating the heritage and history of Springer Mathematics and take a journey through some of our seminal works. 

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The journal Mathematische Annalen was founded in 1868 by Alfred Clebsch and Carl Neumann. It was continued by Felix Klein, David Hilbert, Otto Blumenthal, Erich Hecke, Heinrich Behnke, Hans Grauert, Heinz Bauer, Herbert Amann, Jean-Pierre Bourguigon, Wolfgang Lück and Nigel Hitchin. 

Since 1868 the name Mathematische Annalen stands for a long tradition and high quality in the publication of mathematical research articles. Mathematische Annalen is designed not as a specialized journal but covers a wide spectrum of modern mathematics.

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​​​​​Global representation of Segre numbers by Monge–Ampère products


"Mathematische Zeitschrift" was founded in 1918 and edited by L. Lichtenstein in cooperation with K. Knopp, E. Schmidt and I. Schur; after Lichtenstein's death, 1933, it was edited by K. Knopp. The Editorial Committee was increased to include E. Kamke and F.K. Schmidt in 1933, R. Nevanlinna in 1936 and H. Wielandt in 1950. The latter became Managing Editor in 1952. He was succeeded in 1973 by H. Salzmann, 1977 by H. Heyer, 1984 by W. P. Barth and W.v. Wahl, 1990 by E. Becker, 2001 by D. Müller and 2007 by O. Debarre. Since 2020 J. Kamnitzer has been the Managing Editor.

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On geometric quantization of bm-symplectic manifolds

The ring of modular forms of degree two in characteristic three

Birational sheets in reductive groups


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Endo-parameters for p-adic classical groups