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Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany/ by Abraham A. Fraenkel ; edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield ; translated by Allison Brown.
Author:	Fraenkel, Abraham A.
other author:	Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	xx, 234 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Mathematics, Jewish - Biography. - 20th century -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30847-0
ISBN:	9783319308470

Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany
Fraenkel, Abraham A.

Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany[electronic resource] /by Abraham A. Fraenkel ; edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield ; translated by Allison Brown. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - xx, 234 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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 under the British Mandate) in the early 1930s. In his autobiography Fraenkel describes his early years growing up as an Orthodox Jew in Germany and his development as a mathematician at the beginning of the twentieth century. This memoir, originally written in German in the 1960s, has now been translated into English, with an additional chapter covering the period from 1933 until his death in 1965 written by the editor, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield. Fraenkel describes the world of mathematics in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, its origins and development, the systems influencing it, and its demise. He also paints a unique picture of the complex struggles within the world of Orthodox Jewry in Germany. In his personal life, Fraenkel merged these two worlds during periods of turmoil including the two world wars and the establishment of the state of Israel. Including a new foreword by Menachem Magidor Foreword to the 1967 German edition by Yehoshua Bar-Hillel.

ISBN: 9783319308470

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-30847-0doiSubjects--Personal Names:

810777
Fraenkel, Abraham Adolf,
1891-1965.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1114862
Mathematics, Jewish
--20th century--Biography.

LC Class. No.: QA23.F73

Dewey Class. No.: 510.92

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