Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (born 2 April 1953 in Halle (Saale)) is a German historian of mathematics.

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Biography

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Siegmund-Schultze studied mathematics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where he received his doctorate in 1979 on the history of functional analysis.[1] He wrote his doctoral thesis between 1975 and 1978 during research studies at the Karl-Sudhoff-Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften (Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences) at the Leipzig University. He then worked until 1990 as an assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he completed his habilitation in 1987 ("Contributions to the analysis of the development conditions of mathematics in fascist Germany with special consideration of the reviewing system").[2][3] From 1991 to 1994 he was a Feodor Lynen research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the USA. Since 2000 he has been a professor of history of science at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.[2]

Siegmund-Schultze is known for historical work on the unfortunate circumstances and emigration of mathematicians from National Socialist Germany.[4][5][6] In particular, he has written extensively about Richard von Mises.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Since 2000 he has been a member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences headquartered in Paris.[2] In 2011 he gave the historical lecture Landau und Schur: eine Freundschaft in unmenschlicher Zeit (Landau and Schur: a friendship in inhumane times), which was part of the events accompanying the Euler Lecture.[15] In 2014 at the ICM in Seoul, he was an invited speaker with talk One hundred years after the Great War (1914–2014): A century of breakdowns, resumptions and fundamental changes in international mathematical communication.[16] Since 2016 he has been co-editor of Historia Mathematica.[2] In 2024 he was awarded the Otto Neugebauer Prize of the European Mathematical Society.[17]

Selected publications

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  1. ^ Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c d "Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Professor Emeritus". Universitetet i Agder. (in Norwegian)
  3. ^ Mathematische Berichterstattung in Hitlerdeutschland: der Niedergang des "Jahrbuchs über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1993 (aus der Habilitation entstanden)
  4. ^ Brüning, Jochen; Ferus, Dirk; Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (1998). Terror and Exile: Persecution and Expulsion of Mathematicians from Berlin Between 1933 and 1945 : An Exhibition on the Occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Technische Universität Berlin, August 19 to 27, 1998.
  5. ^ Mathematiker auf der Flucht vor Hitler. Quellen und Studien zur Emigration einer Wissenschaft, Vieweg: Braunschweig 1998; in an expanded version in English translation: Mathematicians fleeing from Nazi Germany: individual fates and global impact, Princeton University Press 2009
  6. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2011). "Landau und Schur. Dokumente einer Freundschaft bis in den Tod in unmenschlicher Zeit (Landau and Schur: Documents of a friendship until death in inhumane times)". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 19 (3): 164–173. doi:10.1515/dmvm-2011-0070.
  7. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, R. (2001). "Richard von Mises". Statisticians of the Centuries. pp. 352–357. doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_76. ISBN 978-0-387-95283-3. preview of Statisticians of the Centuries
  8. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2004). "A Non-Conformist Longing for Unity in the Fractures of Modernity: Towards a Scientific Biography of Richard von Mises (1883–1953)". Science in Context. 17 (3): 333–370. doi:10.1017/S026988970400016X. S2CID 146246122.
  9. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2006). "Probability in 1919/20: The von Mises-Pólya-Controversy". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 60 (5): 431–515. doi:10.1007/s00407-006-0112-x. S2CID 122351630.
  10. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2007). "Philipp Frank, Richard von Mises, and the Frank-Mises". Physics in Perspective. 9 (1): 26–57. Bibcode:2007PhP.....9...26S. doi:10.1007/s00016-006-0288-0. S2CID 119419431.
  11. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2010). "Sets versus trial sequences, Hausdorff versus von Mises: "Pure" mathematics prevails in the foundations of probability around 1920". Historia Mathematica. 37 (2): 204–241. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2009.11.007.
  12. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2018). "Applied Mathematics versus Fluid Dynamics: The Catalytic Role of Richard von Mises (1883–1953)". Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 48 (4): 475–525. doi:10.1525/hsns.2018.48.4.475. S2CID 56112022.
  13. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2020). "Richard von Mises' work for ZAMM until his emigration in 1933 and glimpses of the later history of ZAMM" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik. 100 (6). doi:10.1002/zamm.202002029.
  14. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2023). "The two 'strongest pillars of the empiricist wing': The Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939)". Annals of Science: 1–30. doi:10.1080/00033790.2023.2203049. PMID 37212206.
  15. ^ "Euler-Vorlesung: Archiv".
  16. ^ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2014). "One hundred years after the Great War (1914–2014): a century of breakdowns, resumptions and fundamental changes in international mathematical communication". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul. Vol. 4. pp. 1231–1253.
  17. ^ Otto Neugebauer Prize 2024
  18. ^ Parshall, Karen Hunger (March 26, 2002). "Review of Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars: Documents and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  19. ^ Audin, Michèle (November 2010). "Review of Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 57 (10): 1300–1302.
  20. ^ Tazzioli, Rossana (2022). "Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War by Christopher D. Hollings and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 44 (2): 175–180. doi:10.1007/s00283-021-10066-w. S2CID 253818784.