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What led to the fall of Göttingen?
It's worth noting that we can't just pin it down to "The Nazi regime" and we may have to just say "The Nazis." Take for instance the case of Landau. He could not be purged as such ...
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Source for Hilbert's famous quote "Mathematics in Göttingen? There really is none anymore"
In my grandfather's book, lately translated from German:
Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany, by Abraham A. Fraenkel, edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, translated by Allison Brown.
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What led to the fall of Göttingen?
MacLane's article "Mathematics at Göttingen under the Nazis" is a very vivid first hand account of the time 1931-33. MacLane writes:
... in 1933 eighteen mathematicians left or were driven out ...
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For many years, were Emmy Noether and Helene Braun the only female mathematicians to obtain habilitation at Göttingen University?
In fact, according to the book "Des Kennenlernens werth": bedeutende Frauen Göttingens, only one other woman apart from Emy Noether achieved habilitation in Göttingen during the Weimar Republic: the ...
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What led to the rise of Göttingen?
At this link, you can find a loose translation of „Die Entwicklung der Mathematik an der Universität Göttingen" by Erwin Neuenschwander and Hans-Wilhelm Burmann, an interesting article published in ...
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What led to the rise of Göttingen?
As to your question "why did the university [at Göttingen] become so prevalent":
The answer is surely "Felix Klein". A dynamic, versatile, and brilliant mathematician, he was also a talented ...
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