Book ID: CBB875170225

Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928: Trajectories and Institutions (2021)

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Mazliak, Laurent (Editor)
Tazzioli, Rossana (Editor)


Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 379
Language: English

This book is a consequence of the international meeting organized in Marseilles in November 2018 devoted to the aftermath of the Great War for mathematical communities. It features selected original research presented at the meeting offering a new perspective on a period, the 1920s, not extensively considered by historiography. After 1918, new countries were created, and borders of several others were modified. Territories were annexed while some countries lost entire regions. These territorial changes bear witness to the massive and varied upheavals with which European societies were confronted in the aftermath of the Great War. The reconfiguration of political Europe was accompanied by new alliances and a redistribution of trade – commercial, intellectual, artistic, military, and so on – which largely shaped international life during the interwar period. These changes also had an enormous impact on scientific life, not only in practice, but also in its organization and communication strategies. The mathematical sciences, which from the late 19th century to the 1920s experienced a deep disciplinary evolution, were thus facing a double movement, internal and external, which led to a sustainable restructuring of research and teaching. Concomitantly, various areas such as topology, functional analysis, abstract algebra, logic or probability, among others, experienced exceptional development. This was accompanied by an explosion of new international or national associations of mathematicians with for instance the founding, in 1918, of the International Mathematical Union and the controversial creation of the International Research Council. Therefore, the central idea for the articulation of the various chapters of the book is to present case studies illustrating how in the aftermath of the war, many mathematicians had to organize their personal trajectories taking into account the evolution of the political, social and scientific environment which had taken place at the end of the conflict.

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Authors & Contributors
Agostini, Filiberto
Mazliak, Laurent
Fangerau, Heiner
Aubin, David
Sondel-Cedarmas, Joanna
Pudłocki, Tomasz
Concepts
World War I
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Science and society
Mathematics
Academic freedom
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Italy
Europe
France
Poland
Cracow (Poland)
Padua (Italy)
Institutions
Science and Technology
École Polytechnique, Paris
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