Memories and memorials
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Memories and memorials
zbMATH Open document ID: 0841.01032
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024893
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1996-07-18T00:00:00Z
review text: The article is a harsh criticism of the publication policies of the ``Jahresbericht'' of the German Mathematicians' Association. The author gives examples for a bias in many memorials published recently in the Jahresbericht, which tend to ignore or suppress the political role of the mathematicians under review, especially, during the Nazi era. The author was provoked to write this paper by a biographical article of \textit{N. Schappacher} and \textit{E. Scholz}, on the ardent Nazi and brilliant mathematician O. Teichmüller in [Jahresber. Dtsch. Math. Ver. 94, 1-39 (1992; Zbl 0751.01013)]. The author wrote a lengthy pamphlet on this article and circulated it among mathematicians, many of them emigrés from Nazi-Germany. The reactions seem to have persuaded the author that he misunderstood somewhat the motives and merits of that particular article. So, the resulting publication under review is much more moderate with respect to the Teichmüller biography, but still, and convincingly so, critical of many other publications in the Jahresbericht.
reviewed by: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A80
zbMATH DE Number: 851672
zbMATH Keywords: Jahresbericht DMV
zbMATH Keywords: Nazi past
zbMATH Keywords: Oswald Teichmüller
author: Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Oswald Teichmüller
cites work: Q3282102
cites work: Schiffer's interior variation and quasiconformal mapping
cites work: Q3994371
cites work: Oswald Teichmüller --- life and work. Edited by N. Schappacher and E. Scholz
cites work: A Method of Variation Within the Family of Simple Functions
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024893
OpenAlex ID: W4205898480
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 851672