Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Fraenkel, Abraham A. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

Abraham A. Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in pre–Second World War Germany, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development of modern mathematics. A friend of Albert Einstein, he knew many of the era’s acclaimed mathematicians personally. He moved to Israel (then Palestine un...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword to the 2015 English edition by Menachem Magidor
• Foreword to the 1967 German edition by Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
• 1.My Ancestors
• 2. Childhood and Adolescence in Munich (1891–1910)
• 3.As a Student at Prussian Universities (1910–1914)
• 4.As a Soldier in the First World War (1914–1919)
• 5.As a Professor in Marburg and Kiel (1919–1929)
• 6. Epilogue (1929–1933)
• Afterword: 1933–1965 by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
• Family trees
• Bibliography of works by Abraham A. Fraenkel
• Index.