Timeline for What led to the fall of Göttingen?
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| Mar 9, 2021 at 22:16 | history | edited | KCd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 0:40 | comment | added | puzzlet | About the references for Hilbert's quote, see this question: hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2486/… | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 13:57 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | John von Neumann always insisted he came to the US voluntarily, and not because he was forced out in Europe. He came to Princeton in 1931. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 22:20 | history | edited | Danu♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2015 at 22:50 | history | edited | Danu♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2015 at 22:45 | comment | added | Danu♦ | @ColinMcLarty In fact, I now see that one of the links I have in my answer leads to the quote as you have it in your comment. I'll edit it in myself. | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 22:39 | comment | added | Colin McLarty | This exchange between Hilbert and Rust is much more verbose than the versions I have heard before, and when I look on line I find it only in popularizations. Is there a good source? Constance Reid (Hilbert p. 205) gives it as: "Rust asked, "How is mathematics in Göttingen now that it has been freed of the Jewish influence?" Hilbert replied, "Mathematics in Göttingen? There is really none any more."" | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 10:42 | comment | added | Gottfried William | Yes, this is the case. According to MacLane (see his autobiography from 2006), who was a student there getting his PhD, they were all fired unless they had fought in WWI and taught sufficiently long enough, and even then most Jews were expelled from their professorships or administrative positions. Hermann Weyl was the only important person in the department besides Landau who was not expelled in 1933. He left very soon on his own. Hilbert no longer actively taught. Landau was the only Jew not expelled when the Nazis took over, for the above reasons, but he died soon after. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 2:05 | comment | added | tox123 | Hilbert did not leave? | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 2:03 | vote | accept | tox123 | ||
| Nov 2, 2014 at 1:23 | history | edited | Danu♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 1:18 | history | answered | Danu♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |