Oct 4, 2013 By: yunews
YU Museum Exhibition Showcases Astonishing Pre-WWII Contributions of Jewish Mathematicians in German Culture
The people of the book have an illustrious legacy with numbers, as a fascinating new exhibition co-presented by the Leo Baeck Institute and Yeshiva University Museum reveals.![David Hilbert with friends, students and family. Göttingen was considered the “Mecca” of mathematics in the early 20th century. The city achieved its international renown largely due to the influence of (the non-Jewish) David Hilbert and Felix Klein, aided by a large number of significant Jewish mathematicians and physicists. More than a few of Hilbert’s 73 doctoral students were Jewish, including Otto Blumenthal, Max Dehn, Felix Bernstein, Ernst Hellinger, Alfréd Haar, Richard Courant, Hugo Steinhaus, and Jacob Grommer. This extremely productive period came to an abrupt end with their exclusion and expulsion after 1933.](/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/10/Hilbert-with-Friends-1024x715.jpg)