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Journey Through Genie: German Advancements In Science And Mathematics
and moderns been more clearly stated. (5) An antimath sentiment in general wasevolving among the science community, causing german mathematicians to unite
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/michaels/german.htm

Extractions: References below Another great German mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), is today given partial credit for the discovery of calculus along with Isaac Newton. However, this was not the case druing his life, as he was accused of plagiarism. Leibniz was a man far ahead of his time; along with his involvement in the birth of calculus, he also designed a model of a digital computing machine, invented determinants, had a hand in the origin of complex numbers, developed combinatorics, was a great philosopher and a tremendous tribute to his nation. Even today, two hundred and eighty-one years after his death, we still underestimate his contribution to modern science and mathematics. A rivalry between Britain and the German states began to evolve in the late nineteenth century, sparked both by August Borsig's railway plant and Friedrich Krupp's steel production. Borsig's locomotives became known all over Europe as the fastest and most powerful, a distinction previously held by the British. Krupp and sons' cannons were also known as the finest in Europe, and he sold them to many neighbouring nations who later used them against Germany. This rivalry would later extend to the ship building industry, and serve as a catalyst in the outbreak of World War I. "On the threshold of the age of modern empirical science in Germany stands Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1850)."
MATHEMATICS UNBOUND:
Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). The Effects of Nazi Germanyon the International Participation of german mathematicians .
http://www.math.virginia.edu/MathUnbound/Flyer1.html

Extractions: Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Community, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA 27 29 May 1999 Conference announcement As part of its "Emphasis Year in the History of Mathematics, " the University of Virginia will be hosting a three-day symposium, entitled Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Community, 1800-1945 , from 27 to 29 May 1999. This symposium aims to shed light on the historical processes and interactions involved in the development of what has become an international community of mathematicians. Today's mathematical community takes its international character very much for granted, but this current status is a relatively recent phenomenon. During the period from 1800 to 1945, a time of immense political and cultural upheaval, mathematicians (and other scientists) evolved from being relatively isolated practitioners within their own national communities into members of an extended society of fellow scholars to whom the quest for the advancement of mathematical knowledge transcended national boundaries. To date, much historical scholarship has focused on the development of
Mathematical Institutes In Berlin
The german mathematicians are proud that, at the end of this century, with BerlinGermany was again chosen as the site of an ICM and as a symbol of a new and
http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/Org/math-in-berlin.html

Extractions: ICM'98 There are three universities in Berlin. The oldest is the , founded in 1809, one of whose first professors of mathematics was Dirichlet, the , founded in 1879, and the , which started in 1948 in the American sector and which today is one of the largest universities in Germany. Besides the university departments there are two major research institutes, the , and the . Berlin also hosts the editorial office of the . In 1991 a new university was founded in Potsdam, a city neighboring Berlin, which, after the German reunification, became the capital of the newly formed state of Brandenburg. Potsdam University also has an active mathematics department. For the current mathematical events in Berlin and Potsdam, please have a look at the Schedule of Events About 2500 students study mathematics at the various institutions, and there are many jointly conducted research projects. Today Berlin has all the attributes to again become an outstanding center of learning and research with a lively exchange from East and West. The international community of mathematicians assembled for the first time in Germany at Heidelberg in 1904. The German mathematicians are proud that, at the end of this century, with Berlin Germany was again chosen as the site of an ICM and as a symbol of a new and ever closer relationship in all matters, political, human, and scientific.
Algebraic Geometry Group
European Mathematical Society (EMS). german mathematicians Association(DMV). American Mathematical Society (AMS). Mathematical Institutes.
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwagag/en/links.html

Extractions: Algebraic Geometry Group Links News Research Areas Members Guests ... Photos Links OPAC (University of Kaiserslautern) Zentralblatt MATH Duke E-Print-Archive ( Augsburg USA Springer Mathematics Online Library AMS Journals ... Documenta Mathematica (DMV) 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification European Algebraic Geometry Research Training Network (EAGER) European Singularities Network (ESN) European Mathematical Society (EMS) German Mathematicians Association (DMV) American Mathematical Society (AMS) Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach Mathematics Departments in Germany Maple V Online Documentation Thomas Keilen's collection Bruce Hunt's algebraic surfaces algebraic curves (Geometry Center, Minnesota) index of famous curves (University of St. Andrews, UK) Tore Nordstrand's collection of surfaces Adam Coffman's Steiner surfaces Mike Henderson's implicit surface algorithm University of Kaiserslautern Department of Mathematics Algebraic Geometry Group
Mathematics In WWW
Mathematics in WWW, Germany. Europe. Worldwide. Germany. Association ofgerman mathematicians (DMV); Mathematic Research Institute in Oberwolfach;
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/infodienst/matheimwww_e.html
Biography Of Rieman
and then went to Berlin. In Berlin, he was with some of the greatestgerman mathematicians. He studied under Jacobi, Steiner, and
http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/199899/bioriema.htm

Extractions: Back to the Table of Contents Biographies of Mathematicians - Riemann Early Life Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born on September 17, 1826 in Breselenz, Germany to Georg Fredrich Bernhard Riemann and Charlotte Ebell. His father was a pastor in a time when most of the area's countryside was caught in poverty. Needless to say, they didn't have too much money. On top of that, he had four other brothers and sisters. They lived a deprived childhood plagued by hunger and malnutrition. The family was very close despite their numbers and predicament. Georg was a quiet child who had a terrible fear of public speaking. He was pretty bright and loved solving puzzles. Education - Rest of Life Theory of Numbers by Legendre and the classic works of Gauss. , which means Over hypotheses which Geometry to reason are situated Other Mathematical Achievements Non-Euclidean Geometry Riemann Hypothesis The Riemann zeta function is as follows: Riemann's Moduli Problem Find an analytic parameterization of the compact Riemann Surfaces in a fixed Homomorphism class. The Ahlors-Bers Theorem proved that Riemann's Moduli Space gives the solution.
Useful Links
SIAM Member List; Search for german mathematicians; NANet White Page;World Alumni Network. Useful Internet Tools. Hardware and Software
http://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/UsefulLink/
The University Of Warwick Library - Subjects - Sciences - Mathematics And Statis
MathNet Internet Information Services for Mathematics Has a bias towards Germansources of information, ie german mathematicians, a search engine for German
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/subjects/sciences/sciences_ms.html
Karl Weierstrass
With the support of german mathematicians, he was given several honorary degreesand made Assistant Professor at the University of Berlin where he spent the
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Weierstrass.html

Extractions: (Weierstrass) Poor college student. High school teacher. Superb mathematician. Weierstrass was the oldest son of a minor customs official, and his childhood is not particularly unusual. He seemed to enjoy school and won numerous prizes in languages and mathematics. At 19 he entered the University of Bonn. His father pressured him to study law and commerce to insure a secure future, but instead "He devoted his great bodily strength, his lightning dexterity and his keen mind almost exclusively to fencing and the mellow sociability that is induced by nightly and liberal indulgence in honest German beer." During the summer vacation of 1853, Weierstrass wrote up another original result and this time sent it to a well-read professional journal, Crelle's Journal. It appeared in 1854 and caused quite a commotion a masterful work of original mathematics from an unknown high school teacher! With the support of German mathematicians, he was given several honorary degrees and made Assistant Professor at the University of Berlin where he spent the rest of his life. His research fame spread quickly, and he was also known as a popular and accessible teacher, unusual qualities for a professor in those days. When Sonja Kovalevskaia came to Germany from Russia to study mathematics, she was not allowed to attend classes at the university because she was a woman, so Weierstrass privately tutored her for several years. Later, he kept in touch, worked to help her find a suitable academic position, and was very pleased she won the prize of the French Academy of Science.
Fields Medal
in Toronto. Against Fields' wishes, german mathematicians were blackballed from participating in this conference. Fields was
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/FieldsMedal.html

Extractions: John Charles Fields (1863-1932) was a Canadian mathematician, educated in Toronto, Paris, and Berlin. He spent the bulk of his academic career at The University of Toronto (with a brief stint at Johns Hopkins University). Fields did original research in the theory of algebraic functions that was influenced by his reknowned mentors, Fuchs, Schwarz, Frobenius and Plank. However, he was better known as an administrator/organizer and is remembered, primarily, for establishing a mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prizes. Fields, in large part, was responsible for putting together the 1924 meeting of the International Congress of Mathematics in Toronto. Against Fields' wishes, German mathematicians were "black-balled" from participating in this conference. Fields was so troubled by this politicizing of mathematics that he proposed the institution of an award for mathematical achievement and promise that would emphasize the international character of the mathematical endeavor. He endowed such an award in his will, and the first Fields Medal was awarded at the International Congress of Mathematics meetings in Oslo in 1936. Traditionally, Fields Medals have gone to young mathematicians under the age of 40. The intent of the awards is to applaud the exceptional scope and quality of the recipients' work and to assist them in conducting further research.
Preface
the source of NLP (to find out that epistemological giant, Gregory Bateson, as wellas the revolutionary discoveries made by two german mathematicians, which I
http://www.creativity.co.uk/creativity/guhen/preface.htm

Extractions: This CD-ROM book is the outcome of my nearly 20 year long research into the human consciousness. My inner journey started at the beginning of the eighties in the middle of the Sahara Desert, where I stayed for three years. The life was very harsh there, but the natural scenery was truly and awesomely ineffable; I was once standing on the top of the 600 foot high barren cliff, from where I was able to overlook the traces of the flows of rivers of the remote past! Indeed, the whole place must have been under the water tens of thousands of years ago, because one was able to pick up a number of fossils containing sea shells. Another time I saw a big sun coming up from the east in the middle of the desert dunes, and when I looked at the west there was also a big yellowish moon going down over the horizon. I couldn't help feeling the tinniness of the human existence in front of the vast nature. I subsequently went to the States, where I was initiated by an Indian guru living in Oregon. I lived in his commune for about a year, where I participated in an intensive residential 7 month long psychotherapeutic course (a total of 1,700 hour long sessions). I thought that I was experiencing the ultimate Zen space during the course, but one German participant of the course said to me "What we are experiencing here is a kind of kindergarten game, in comparison with the newly born American psychology called NLP". (I may have other opportunities to talk about my master and this psychotherapeutic course in detail in the future).
St. Mark School - Venice
Wednesday, July 25, 2001. Adam Ries, german mathematicians ChrisSands Chris Sands Adam Ries, German Mathematician by Chris Sands.
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Extractions: by Chris Sands The mathematician I researched was Adam Ries. He was born in 1492 in Staffe Istein (near Bamber), Saxony (now Germany). He eventually died March 30,1559 in Annaberg, Saxony(now Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany). His contribution to the mathematic community was the many Arithmetic textbooks he wrote. These books were used by everyone, not just scientists and engineers. He attended school in Zwickau when he moved to Annaberg. In 1518 he moved to Erfurt, and although he did not attend university there, he did have many contacts with academics from the university and he profited greatly from these contacts. In 1523 he became an engineer and inspector of mines in Annaberg in the kingdom of Sachsen. He became a recorder of yields in 1525, then in 1532 he became recorder of ownership of mining shares, and from 1533 to 1539 he was calculator of the ducal tithes. Rechenung nach der lenge, auff den Linihen vnd Feder is Riess most famous book. He published it in 1550. This was a textbook written for everyone, not just for scientists and engineers. In this book, Ries covers addition, subtraction and even division which was very advanced for his time. Most people then only learned division at the university level, even scientists did not know how to divide. Ries explained division in this textbook for everyone to understand. He used the old method as taught by an abacus and the new method used by the Indians. Ries also wrote books on algebra and pricing of items in stores.
Feedback Feedback
in Germany under the Nazis. However many german mathematicians remainedactive in Germany . This list includes among others such
http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/sums/

Extractions: Login Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Major Madness!! Tuesday, March 18 Come one, come all to the open house in Hylan Hall! You've been pining for this opportunity and now it's finally here: meet your fellow math-fanatics and learn about the major in mathematics. Questions about summer research, math as a second major, and what to take in the fall will be answered by students who've survived it all. Prepare yourself now because Tuesday, March 18 promises to be a fantastic day!
Kai Diethelm's Homepage
mathematics. The DMV (german mathematicians' Union) homepage; SIAM'shomepage; The homepage of the American Mathematical Society (AMS);
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~diethelm/

Extractions: 38106 Braunschweig Phone +49 531 391-7541 (office) +49 531 391-7537 (secretary) Fax +49 531 391-8206 e-mail: K.Diethelm@tu-bs.de (in German) The DMV (German Mathematicians' Union) homepage SIAM's homepage The homepage of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) The Guide to Available Mathematical Software provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology The eLib of the ZIB Berlin (including various mathematical software libraries) The NA-Net (Numerical Analysis) The AT-Net of the Approximation Theory community The OPSF-Net provided by the SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions The IP-Net (Inverse Problems) The IM-Net (Industrial Mathematics) The GSCI Digest (German Scientific Computing Homepage) The Fractional Calculus and Modeling web site A database containing a list of recent publications in numerical quadrature and cubature (maintained by Ronald Cools , K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Curriculum Vitae
of Math., graduate studies. Professional Societies. Member of the german mathematiciansAssociation (DMV). Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
http://math.la.asu.edu/~thieme/VITA.html

Extractions: Education Diploma (MS) in mathematics at the University of Muenster, Germany 4-28-76 doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Muenster, Germany Doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Muenster, Germany Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Venia legendi at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Positions held 12-1-75 to 7-31-76 Research assistant at the University of Muenster, Germany 8-1-76 to 7-31-79 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Muenster, Germany 8-1-79 to 7-31-84 Research fellow at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), research center 'Stochastic Mathematical Models in the Natural Sciences' July 83 to April 91 Privatdozent at the Department of Mathematics, University of Heidelberg
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and Technology (EASST), New York Academy of Science, International Society for ClinicalBiostatistics (ISCB), Society of german mathematicians (DMV), Romanian
http://www.csm.ro/cv.php?member_id=23&research=0
Ecclectica - Aleph
starting to gain acceptance. german mathematicians Ernst Zermelo andDavid Hilbert began to champion Cantor's ideas. Hilbert drew up a
http://www.ecclectica.ca/issues/2002/1/williams.asp

Extractions: The book, or movie, A Beautiful Mind, has recently entranced us all with a view into the troubled thoughts of Princeton mathematician and Nobel Laureate John Nash. He is often compared with the painter, Vincent Van Gogh, another unhappy spirit who spent much time in and out of mental institutions but never wavered from his quest. Many of us have a weakness, even envy, for these people, driven to madness by their single-minded search for truth and their determination to declare it. Georg Cantor is another example. He was born in Russia in 1845, but lived most of his life in Germany. Although he trained with some of the foremost mathematicians of the day, and obtained his doctorate in 1869, he was unable to secure a position at any of the prestigious research universities. Disappointed, he accepted a post at Friedrich's University in the small industrial town of Halle, almost midway between the two great university cities of Gottingen and Berlin. Time and again, he applied for positions in both of these places, always to be refused. Cantor's work with mathematical set theory, which would eventually lead to a revolution in our understanding of the infinite, began with the question: How do I count the number of elements (members) in a set? The answer, he concluded, was to associate each element in turn with the so called
Seminar Sophus Lie
Seminar Sophus Lie. Seminar Sophus Lie is a joint Seminar of a group of german mathematiciansinterested in the theory of Lie groups and their wider horizon.
http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~plaumann/lie/lie_old.html

Extractions: Seminar Sophus Lie is a joint Seminar of a group of German mathematicians interested in the theory of Lie groups and their wider horizon. It was founded around 1989-90 when, during the Volkskammer Government of the German Democratic Republic in 1989, open contacts between mathematicians in East- and Westgermany became a reality for the first time since 1961. Several mathematicians located at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, the University of Erlangen, the University of Greifswald, and the University of Leipzig organized informally the Seminar with financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and met for the first seminar session at the University of Leipzig in January 1991. The Seminar meets once a semester since that time. Later on groups at the University of Bielefeld, the University of Clausthal, and the University of Agriculture in Wien (Vienna, Austria) joined the seminar. Meetings were held in Leipzig (winter 1990) Darmstadt (summer 1991), Erlangen (winter 1991), Greifswald (summer 1992)
Weierstrass
Dini thanks Schwarz, a student of Weierstrass with whom he corresponded, forthe news of the new methods followed by the german mathematicians with the
http://www.math.unifi.it/archimede/archimede_inglese/mostra_calcolo/pannelli/7.h

Extractions: A Museum for Mathematics works of the section Salvatore Pincherle, Essay of an introduction to the theory of analytical functions according to the principles of Prof. C. Weierstrass for the use of the students of the Italian Universities of G. Battaglini, Napoli, 1880. Ulisse Dini, Foundations of the theory of functions of a real variable, Pisa, typography T. Nistri, 1878. Angelo Genocchi, Differential Calculus and principles of integral calculus published with additions by Dr Giuseppe Peano, Roma-Torino-Firenze, Fratelli Bocca, 1884. The University of Berlin, during the mid Nineteenth century, became, of all the European schools, one of the most important centres for the study of calculus, and a privileged centre of research towards a more rigorous definition of its foundations. The trend of liberating analysis from notions of geometry, of motion or intuition, found a fundamental contribution in Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897). His formulation of the concept of continuity of functions in terms of inequalities of the type "epsilon-delta", had already been approached by Riemann and was inspired by the lectures of Dirichlet.
Math-Net Welcome Page
Preprints, links, directories. Oriented towards german mathematics but in English.
http://www.math-net.de/

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