Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany
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 Palesti...
| Main Author: | Fraenkel, Abraham Adolf, 1891-1965 |
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| Other Authors: | Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska,, Brown, Allison (Translator), SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Switzerland :
Birkhäuser,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.