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.2009.04.002zbMath1200.01022OpenAlexW2018176204WikidataQ56050003 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 SchurJohn von NeumannRichard von Misesaxiomatic set theoryErhard SchmidtHumboldt university of Berlinmathematical foundations of quantum mechanicsspectral theory of symmetric linear operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics at specific universities (01A73)

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