Landau and Teichmüller
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Landau and Teichmüller
zbMATH Open document ID: 0841.01025
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024892
author: Yanyan Li
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1996-06-02T00:00:00Z
review text: This article is essentially a commentary with excerpts in English on a letter, written by the function theorist and ardent Nazi Oswald Teichmüller (1913-1943) on November 3, 1933, to his teacher Edmund Landau (1877-1938). The letter was written one day after the boycott, led by Teichmüller, of Landau's lecture at the University of Göttingen. A copy of the letter was found by \textit{N. Schappacher} and \textit{E. Scholz} who published it as an appendix to their article on Teichmüller in Jahresber. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. 94, No. 1, 1-39 (1992; Zbl 0751.01013). The letter contains unashamed passages as the following: ``I am not concerned with making difficulties for you as a Jew, but only with protecting -- above all -- German students of the second semester from being taught differential and integral calculus by a teacher of a race quite foreign to them''.
reviewed by: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A80
zbMATH DE Number: 851671
zbMATH Keywords: letter by O. Teichmüller
zbMATH Keywords: boycott of Landau's lecture
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Edmund Landau's Göttingen: From the life and death of a great mathematical center
cites work: Oswald Teichmüller --- life and work. Edited by N. Schappacher and E. Scholz
cites work: Oswald Teichmüller
cites work: The case of André Bloch
cites work: Q3335749
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024892
OpenAlex ID: W4231135073
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 851671