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From Graz to Göttingen: Neugebauer’s Early Intellectual Journey
David E. Rowesubject
Academic careerWeimar Republicmedia_common.quotation_subject010102 general mathematicsArt historyExact scienceNazismArt01 natural sciencesScholarshipFriendshipPerformance art0101 mathematicsPRISM (surveillance program)Cartographymedia_commondescription
Otto Neugebauer’s early academic career was marked by a series of transitions. His interests shifted from physics to mathematics, and finally to the history of ancient mathematics and exact sciences. Yet even from his early years in Graz, Neugebauer was strongly attracted to the mathematical culture of Gottingen. When he arrived there in 1922, he quickly established a strong personal friendship with Richard Courant, the newly appointed Director of the Mathematics Institute. Neugebauer and Courant worked together closely up until 1933, when the Nazi government decimated the Gottingen scientific community. In this essay, Neugebauer’s historical work and his vision for a new approach to the study of the exact sciences are viewed through the prism of these events. By so doing, one can easily appreciate how Neugebauer’s scholarship reflects the ideals he and Courant shared as leading representatives of the Gottingen mathematical tradition.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 |