Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928

Trajectories and Institutions

AvLaurent Mazliak,Rossana Tazzioli

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This was accompanied by an explosion of new international or national associations of mathematicians with for instance the founding, in 1918, of the International Mathematical Union and the controversial creation of the International Research Council.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-28
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:735 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Trends in the History of Science
Antal sidor:363
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030616823

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Introduction.- William Henry Young, an unconventional President of the International Mathematical Union.- The Unione Matematica Italiana and its Bollettino, 1922-1928. National and International Aspects.- L'Enseignement mathématique and its internationalist ambitions during the turmoil of WWI and the 1920s.- Mathematics and logic in Polish encyclopedias published during the interwar period.- From the war against errors to mathematics after the war: Public discourses on a new mathematical dictionary.- International geodesy in the post-war period, as seen by the French Bureau des longitudes (1917-1922).- “The first mathematically serious German school of applied mathematics”? Richard von Mises in the field of tension between pure and engineering mathematics in post-WWI Berlin.- The mathematics of nonlinear oscillations in the 1920s: a decade of trials and convergence? Examples of the work of Nicolai Minorsky.- From Fundamenta Mathematicae to Studia Mathematica: the renaissance of Polishmathematics in light of Banach’s publications 1919-1940.- The journeys of a Hungarian mathematician in the post-war world.- Russian emigrant mathematicians in interwar France: A general picture and two case studies of Ervand Kogbetliantz and Vladimir Kosticyn.