Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (born 2 April 1953 in
Halle (Saale)) is a German historian of mathematics.
Biography
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 presentation 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]
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]
Selected publications
Articles
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (1982). "Die Anfänge der Funktionalanalysis und ihr Platz im Umwälzungsprozeß der Mathematik um 1900". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 26: 13–71.
doi:
10.1007/BF00348309.
S2CID115314147.
—— (1991). "Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany". World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 134. pp. 89–95.
doi:
10.1007/978-94-011-3164-3_8.
ISBN978-94-010-5395-2.
—— (1997). "Felix Kleins Beziehungen zu den Vereinigten Staaten, die Anfänge deutscher auswärtiger Wissenschaftspolitik und die Reform um 1900 (Felix Klein's relations with the United States, the beginnings of German foreign science policy and the reform at the end of the 19th century)". Sudhoffs Archiv. 81 (1): 21–38.
JSTOR20777615.
—— (2003). "The late arrival of academic applied mathematics in the United States: A paradox, theses, and literature". NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine. 11 (2): 116–127.
doi:
10.1007/BF02908592.
S2CID143923928.
—— (2004). "Mathematik in Norwegen I. Ein Land mit "sehr wenigen Poeten und allzu vielen Mathematikern"? (A Land with very few poets and all too many mathematicians?)". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 12: 36–40.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2004-0015.
—— (2007). "Einsteins Nachruf auf Emmy Noether in der New York Times 1935". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 15 (4): 221–227.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2007-0076. (Einstein's obituary for
Emmy Noether in the New York Times)
online text from McTutor
—— (2008). "Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik und die Lage jüdischer Mathematiker: Thesen und Dokumente zu einem wenig erforschten Thema (Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic and the situation of Jewish mathematicians: Theses and documents on a little-researched topic)". Sudhoffs Archiv. 92 (1): 20–34.
doi:
10.25162/sudhoff-2008-0002.
JSTOR20778360.
S2CID156378480.
—— (2011). ""Göttinger Feldgraue", Einstein und die verzögerte Wahrnehmung von Emmy Noethers Sätzen über Invariante Variationsprobleme (1918)". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 19 (2): 100–104.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2011-0046. ("Göttingen
Field-grey": Einstein and the delayed perception of
Emmy Noether's theorems on invariant variation problems (1918))
Nossum, Rolf; —— (2022). "Mathematik in Norwegen IV: Abel, Lie, der neue Beruf des Lehrers und die Vorbereitung der Anwendungen". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 30 (2): 116–121.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2022-0039. (See
Niels Henrik Abel &
Sophus Lie.)
Books
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (1993). Mathematische Berichterstattung in Hitlerdeutschland: der Niedergang des "Jahrbuchs über die Fortschritte der Mathematik". Studien zur Wissenschafts-, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik 9. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
ISBN352540316X.
LCCN94200516; x+263 pages{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (
link); Mathematical reporting in Hitler's Germany: the demise of the
Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (Yearbook on the Progress of Mathematics)
^Mathematische Berichterstattung in Hitlerdeutschland: der Niedergang des "Jahrbuchs über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1993 (aus der Habilitation entstanden)
^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.
^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.
S2CID122351630.
^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.
S2CID56112022.
^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.
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (born 2 April 1953 in
Halle (Saale)) is a German historian of mathematics.
Biography
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 presentation 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]
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]
Selected publications
Articles
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (1982). "Die Anfänge der Funktionalanalysis und ihr Platz im Umwälzungsprozeß der Mathematik um 1900". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 26: 13–71.
doi:
10.1007/BF00348309.
S2CID115314147.
—— (1991). "Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany". World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 134. pp. 89–95.
doi:
10.1007/978-94-011-3164-3_8.
ISBN978-94-010-5395-2.
—— (1997). "Felix Kleins Beziehungen zu den Vereinigten Staaten, die Anfänge deutscher auswärtiger Wissenschaftspolitik und die Reform um 1900 (Felix Klein's relations with the United States, the beginnings of German foreign science policy and the reform at the end of the 19th century)". Sudhoffs Archiv. 81 (1): 21–38.
JSTOR20777615.
—— (2003). "The late arrival of academic applied mathematics in the United States: A paradox, theses, and literature". NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine. 11 (2): 116–127.
doi:
10.1007/BF02908592.
S2CID143923928.
—— (2004). "Mathematik in Norwegen I. Ein Land mit "sehr wenigen Poeten und allzu vielen Mathematikern"? (A Land with very few poets and all too many mathematicians?)". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 12: 36–40.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2004-0015.
—— (2007). "Einsteins Nachruf auf Emmy Noether in der New York Times 1935". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 15 (4): 221–227.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2007-0076. (Einstein's obituary for
Emmy Noether in the New York Times)
online text from McTutor
—— (2008). "Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik und die Lage jüdischer Mathematiker: Thesen und Dokumente zu einem wenig erforschten Thema (Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic and the situation of Jewish mathematicians: Theses and documents on a little-researched topic)". Sudhoffs Archiv. 92 (1): 20–34.
doi:
10.25162/sudhoff-2008-0002.
JSTOR20778360.
S2CID156378480.
—— (2011). ""Göttinger Feldgraue", Einstein und die verzögerte Wahrnehmung von Emmy Noethers Sätzen über Invariante Variationsprobleme (1918)". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 19 (2): 100–104.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2011-0046. ("Göttingen
Field-grey": Einstein and the delayed perception of
Emmy Noether's theorems on invariant variation problems (1918))
Nossum, Rolf; —— (2022). "Mathematik in Norwegen IV: Abel, Lie, der neue Beruf des Lehrers und die Vorbereitung der Anwendungen". Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 30 (2): 116–121.
doi:
10.1515/dmvm-2022-0039. (See
Niels Henrik Abel &
Sophus Lie.)
Books
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (1993). Mathematische Berichterstattung in Hitlerdeutschland: der Niedergang des "Jahrbuchs über die Fortschritte der Mathematik". Studien zur Wissenschafts-, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik 9. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
ISBN352540316X.
LCCN94200516; x+263 pages{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (
link); Mathematical reporting in Hitler's Germany: the demise of the
Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (Yearbook on the Progress of Mathematics)
^Mathematische Berichterstattung in Hitlerdeutschland: der Niedergang des "Jahrbuchs über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1993 (aus der Habilitation entstanden)
^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.
^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.
S2CID122351630.
^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.
S2CID56112022.
^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.