Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reinhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Siegmund-Schultze |
| SIGNATURE | SIEGMUND-SCHULTZE R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The emergence and the failure of an East-West-German project (1988/89) on the “history of mathematics during the Nazi period”
Argument In the decade between 1983 and 1993, Herbert Mehrtens in West Berlin and I in East Berlin communicated closely about our parallel work on mathematics under the National Socialist (NS) regime. For a short period (1988–89), we worked on a joint book on this topic. We agreed that the book should be based primarily on empirical historical material, using a theoretical approach largely guided by Mehrtens’ work on social systems in mathematics…
A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)
Argument The paper is based on a hitherto unexplored document (audiotape of an interview accompanied by a German transcript) from 1953, located in the Freud Papers at the Library of Congress. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of Freud and of Psychoanalysis on personalities from the exact sciences, here represented by the noted applied mathematicians Richard von Mises and Hilda Geiringer from Vienna. The detailed discussion of…
Meeting under the Integral Sign?
Pulling Harriot Out of Newton’s Shadow
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany
Mathematicians Forced to Philosophize
What follows shall provide an introduction to a predominantly philosophical and polemical, but historically revealing, paper on the foundations of the theory of probability. The leading Russian probabilist Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894–1959) (see fig. 1) wrote the paper in the late 1930s, commenting on a slightly older, but still competing approach to probability theory by Richard von Mises. Together with the even more influential Andrey N…
A Non-Conformist Longing for Unity in the Fractures of Modernity
ArgumentThe article describes a special type of scientific and philosophical "non-conformism" as exemplified in the versatile work of Richard von Mises (1883-1953). While the historical impact of von Mises' practical and organizational work in applied mathematics is beyond doubt, it is shown that von Mises' insistence on cognitive connectibility of various scientific domains was not, in the end, successful although it stimulated the theoretical d…
A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)
Argument The paper is based on a hitherto unexplored document (audiotape of an interview accompanied by a German transcript) from 1953, located in the Freud Papers at the Library of Congress. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of Freud and of Psychoanalysis on personalities from the exact sciences, here represented by the noted applied mathematicians Richard von Mises and Hilda Geiringer from Vienna. The detailed discussion of…
A Non-Conformist Longing for Unity in the Fractures of Modernity
ArgumentThe article describes a special type of scientific and philosophical "non-conformism" as exemplified in the versatile work of Richard von Mises (1883-1953). While the historical impact of von Mises' practical and organizational work in applied mathematics is beyond doubt, it is shown that von Mises' insistence on cognitive connectibility of various scientific domains was not, in the end, successful although it stimulated the theoretical d…
Mathematicians Forced to Philosophize
What follows shall provide an introduction to a predominantly philosophical and polemical, but historically revealing, paper on the foundations of the theory of probability. The leading Russian probabilist Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894–1959) (see fig. 1) wrote the paper in the late 1930s, commenting on a slightly older, but still competing approach to probability theory by Richard von Mises. Together with the even more influential Andrey N…
A Non-Conformist Longing for Unity in the Fractures of Modernity
ArgumentThe article describes a special type of scientific and philosophical "non-conformism" as exemplified in the versatile work of Richard von Mises (1883-1953). While the historical impact of von Mises' practical and organizational work in applied mathematics is beyond doubt, it is shown that von Mises' insistence on cognitive connectibility of various scientific domains was not, in the end, successful although it stimulated the theoretical d…
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany
Pulling Harriot Out of Newton’s Shadow
Meeting under the Integral Sign?
The emergence and the failure of an East-West-German project (1988/89) on the “history of mathematics during the Nazi period”
Argument In the decade between 1983 and 1993, Herbert Mehrtens in West Berlin and I in East Berlin communicated closely about our parallel work on mathematics under the National Socialist (NS) regime. For a short period (1988–89), we worked on a joint book on this topic. We agreed that the book should be based primarily on empirical historical material, using a theoretical approach largely guided by Mehrtens’ work on social systems in mathematics…
A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)
Argument The paper is based on a hitherto unexplored document (audiotape of an interview accompanied by a German transcript) from 1953, located in the Freud Papers at the Library of Congress. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of Freud and of Psychoanalysis on personalities from the exact sciences, here represented by the noted applied mathematicians Richard von Mises and Hilda Geiringer from Vienna. The detailed discussion of…
History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · German (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Nazism (3 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (3 works) · Classics (2 works)