No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Hermann Minkowski. Briefe an David Hubert. Ed. by L. Rüdenberg and H. Zassenhaus. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973. Pp. 165. DM 32; $11.90.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
Abstract
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Book Reviews
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1975
References
1 Sachse, A., Friedrich Althoff und stin Werk (Berlin, 1928).Google Scholar
2 Deutsches Zentralarchiv, Historische Abteilung II, Merseburg, E. Germany; Reportorium 92, Nachlass F. Althoff. Use of this source was made in my ‘Towards a biography of Georg Cantor’, Annals of science, xxvii (1971), 345–91. Pages 363–5Google Scholar there will also enlighten Minkowski's reference (p. 97) to Cantor's ‘Shakespearologie’.
3 An impression of the importance of accurate institutional history for the understanding of nineteenth-century German mathematics may be obtained from Biermann, K.-R.'s magnificent Die Mathematik und ihre Dozenten an der Berliner Universitāt 1810–1920. Stationen auf dem Wege eines mathematischen Zentrums von Weltgeltung (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973)Google Scholar. There are some indications of the role of Althoff, and new light on the career of Hubert.