Begehr H., Koch H., Kramer J., Schappacher N., Thiele E.-J. (eds.) Mathematics in Berlin

Basel: Birkhäuser, 1998. — 216 p.This little book is conceived as a service to mathematicians attending the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. It presents a comprehensive, condensed overview of mathematical activity in Berlin, from Leibniz almost to the present day (without, however, including biographies of living mathematicians). Since many towering figures in mathematical history worked in Berlin, most of the chapters of this book are concise biographies. These are held together by a few survey articles presenting the overall development of entire periods of scientific life at Berlin. Overlaps between various chapters and differences in style between the chap­ ters were inevitable, but sometimes this provided opportunities to show different aspects of a single historical event - for instance, the Kronecker-Weierstrass con­ troversy. The book aims at readability rather than scholarly completeness. There are no footnotes, only references to the individual bibliographies of each chapter. Still, we do hope that the texts brought together here, and written by the various authors for this volume, constitute a solid introduction to the history of Berlin mathematics.Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700–1810
Mathematics in Berlin, 1810–1933
Augustus Leopold Crelle, 1780–1855
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Jacob Steiner and Synthetic Geometry
Gotthold Eisenstein
Kummer and Kronecker
Weierstrass and some members of his circle: Kovalevskaia, Fuchs, Schwarz, Schottky
Frobenius, Schur, and the Berlin Algebraic Tradition
Erhard Schmidt, John von Neumann
Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950)
Richard von Mises
Einstein in Berlin
The Nazi era: the Berlin way of politicizing mathematics
The University of Berlin from Reopening until 1953
Helmut Hasse, Hermann Ludwig Schmid and their students in Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universität
Mathematics in Berlin at the Humboldt University: from 1953 until now
The Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
Fast Algorithms, Fast Computers: The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB)
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS)
Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete