Browsing AURA by Author "Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard"
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Another look at the two Egyptian pyramid volume ‘formulas’ of 1850 BCE
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022) -
Applied Mathematics versus Fluid Dynamics The Catalytic Role of Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper investigates scientific, institutional, and political conflict and collaboration between two different disciplines in the first part of the 20th century: applied mathematics and fluid dynamics. It argues for the ... -
„Die Gottesluft der freien Forschung“ – Jacobis Verhältnis zur französischen Mathematik aus politischer Sicht
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013) -
Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes: distorted, clarified, made obsolete, and confirmed in modern mathematics
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Für die Ehre des menschlichen Geistes – Ein neuer Blick auf eine bekannte Kontroverse zwischen Fourier und Jacobi über die Rolle der Anwendungen der Mathematik
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013) -
Hans Wussing (1927-2011) and the blooming of the history of mathematics and sciences in the German Democratic Republic - A biographical essay
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012) -
“The joy that engineers and mathematicians have come together.” Richard von Mises’ foundation of ZAMM, and its “Tasks and Goals” (1920/21)
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The paper is based on a hitherto unexplored document (audiotape of an interview accompanied by a German transcript) from 1953, located in the Freud Papers at the Library of Congress. It contributes to a better understanding ... -
Richard von Mises’ work for ZAMM until his emigration in 1933 and glimpses of the later history of ZAMM
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Rockefeller philanthropy and mathematical emigration between World Wars
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article discusses one aspect of Rockefeller support for mathematics: the emigration of mathematicians from Europe. For the broader policies of the Rockefeller philanthropies for internationalization of mathematics, ... -
The sine anecdote in Kovalevskaya’s memoirs
Birkeland, Lene; Nossum, Rolf Tomas; Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022) -
The sine anecdote in Kovalevskaya’s memoirs
Birkeland, Lene; Nossum, Rolf Tomas; Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya’s memoirs there is a rather ambiguous story about how she came to understand trigonometric functions on her own as a teenager by reading the chapter on optics in Tyrtov’s elementary physics ... -
Some remarks and documents concerning the emigration of Polish mathematicians during the 1930s and early 1940s
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
The interplay of various Scandinavian mathematical journals (1859-1953) and the road towards internationalization
Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)