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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Hermann Minkowski. Briefe an David Hubert. Ed. by L. Rüdenberg and H. Zassenhaus. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973. Pp. 165. DM 32; $11.90.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1975

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References

1 Sachse, A., Friedrich Althoff und stin Werk (Berlin, 1928).Google Scholar

2 Deutsches Zentralarchiv, Historische Abteilung II, Merseburg, E. Germany; Reportorium 92, Nachlass F. Althoff. Use of this source was made in my ‘Towards a biography of Georg Cantor’, Annals of science, xxvii (1971), 345–91. Pages 363–5Google Scholar there will also enlighten Minkowski's reference (p. 97) to Cantor's ‘Shakespearologie’.

3 An impression of the importance of accurate institutional history for the understanding of nineteenth-century German mathematics may be obtained from Biermann, K.-R.'s magnificent Die Mathematik und ihre Dozenten an der Berliner Universitāt 1810–1920. Stationen auf dem Wege eines mathematischen Zentrums von Weltgeltung (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973)Google Scholar. There are some indications of the role of Althoff, and new light on the career of Hubert.