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Leopold Kronecker’s conception of the foundations of mathematics

Jacqueline Boniface (2005)

Philosophia Scientiae

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Most of the time, Kronecker’s views on the foundations of mathematics are reduced to some scattered ideas. However, they constitute an original and coherent doctrine, justified by epistemological convictions. This doctrine appears in the article , published in the (1887) and, especially, in the last course taught by Kronecker, which took place in Berlin during the 1891 summer semester. This article would precise the principles and the insights of the Kroneckerian doctrine and then compare...

Mathematicians at War Power Struggles in Nazi Germany’s Mathematical Community: Gustav Doetsch and Wilhelm Süss

Volker R. Remmert (1999)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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The article discusses several examples of power struggles in Nazi Germany’s mathematical community. Among them are the fate of German participation in J.E.L. Brouwer’s journal in 1934/35. Ludwig Bieberbach put an end to this participation for political reasons. Special attention is paid to developments in the (), above all to the presidency of Wilhelm Süss in the years 1937 to 1945. The pre-war years of his presidency were overshadowed by Bieberbach’s opposition to the . One of the...