Mathematics in Berlin

• Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1700–1810.- Mathematics in Berlin, 1810–1933.- Augustus Leopold Crelle.- 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.- 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, a summary of its history.- 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.- Sources of photographs.- Addresses of authors and editors.

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