一位年長數學家的絕境
作者 西格蒙德舒茨(Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze)
作者簡介
西格蒙德舒茨是挪威克里斯蒂安桑阿格德大學(University of Agder in Kristiansand)數學史榮譽教授。數十年來,他致力研究納粹德國時期的流亡數學家。
譯者 金政昇
譯者簡介
金政昇為業餘科普譯者。
本文出處 本文譯自 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, “No survival for an elderly mathematician: Felix Hausdorff’s failed emigration and death”《歐洲數學學會雜誌》(EMS Magazine)136(2025), pp. 11~15。CC BY 4.0。本文為2021年德文
原文[Mitt. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. 29 (2021), 132~136]的譯本。
延伸閱讀
本文作者的Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual fates and global impact.《逃離納粹德國的數學家:個人命運與全球影響》Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ and Woodstock, UK (2009)。在這本書中,有更詳細的許多這段時期逃離納粹德國的數學家的故事。
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