A richer picture of mathematics. The Gottingen tradition and beyond

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Introduction to Part I  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 3-18
 On Gauss and Gaussian Legends: A Quiz  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 19-28
 Gauss, Dirichlet, and the Law of Biquadratic Reciprocity  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 29-39
 Episodes in the Berlin-Göttingen Rivalry, 1870–1930  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 41-49
 Deine Sonia: A Reading from a Burned Letter by Reinhard Bölling, Translated by D. E. Rowe  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 51-56
 Who Linked Hegel’s Philosophy with the History of Mathematics?  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 57-65
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 Introduction to Part II  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 69-79
 Models as Research Tools: Plücker, Klein, and Kummer Surfaces  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 81-94
 Debating Grassmann’s Mathematics: Schlegel vs. Klein  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 95-103
 Three Letters from Sophus Lie to Felix Klein on Mathematics in Paris  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 105-109
 Klein, Mittag-Leffler, and the Klein-Poincaré Correspondence of 1881–1882  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 111-133
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 Introduction to Part III  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 137-149
 Hilbert’s Early Career  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 151-169
 Klein, Hurwitz, and the “Jewish Question” in German Academia  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 171-182
 On the Background to Hilbert’s Paris Lecture “Mathematical Problems”  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 183-194
 Poincaré Week in Göttingen, 22–28 April 1909  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 195-202
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 Introduction to Part IV  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 205-218
 Hermann Minkowski’s Cologne Lecture, “Raum und Zeit”  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 219-232
 Max von Laue’s Role in the Relativity Revolution  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 233-241
 Euclidean Geometry and Physical Space  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 243-251
 The Mathematicians’ Happy Hunting Ground: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 253-261
 Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equations and the Bianchi Identities  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 263-271
 Puzzles and Paradoxes and Their (Sometimes) Profounder Implications  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 273-278
 Debating Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 279-299
 Remembering an Era: Roger Penrose’s Paper on “Gravitational Collapse: The Role of General Relativity”  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 301-311
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 Introduction to Part V  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 315-330
 Hermann Weyl, The Reluctant Revolutionary  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 331-341
 Transforming Tradition: Richard Courant in Göttingen  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 343-355
 Otto Neugebauer and the Göttingen Approach to History of the Exact Sciences  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 357-368
 On the Myriad Mathematical Traditions of Ancient Greece  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 369-374
 The Old Guard Under a New Order: K. O. Friedrichs Meets Felix Klein  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 375-377
 An Enchanted Era Remembered: Interview with Dirk Jan Struik  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 379-391
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 Introduction to Part VI  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 395-405
 Is (Was) Mathematics an Art or a Science?  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 407-411
 Coxeter on People and Polytopes  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 413-419
 Mathematics in Wartime: Private Reflections of Clifford Truesdell  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 421-433
 Hilbert’s Legacy: Projecting the Future and Assessing the Past at the 1946 Princeton Bicentennial Conference  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 435-443
 Personal Reflections on Dirk Jan Struik By Joseph W. Dauben  (David E. Rowe)....Pages 445-451
Back Matter ....Pages 453-461