At its meeting in April 1990 at the University of Cambridge, the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) decided that the largely unorganized archives of the Union should be properly arranged and catalogued. Simultaneously, the Executive Committee expressed the wish that a history of the Union should be written 1). As Secretary of the Union, I had proposed that these issues be dis cussed at the Cambridge meeting, but without having had in mind any personal role in the practical execution of such projects. At that time, the papers of the IMU were stored in Zurich, at...
At its meeting in April 1990 at the University of Cambridge, the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) decided that the la...
Rolf Nevanlinna (1895-1980) war ein weltberuhmter Mathematiker, eine umstrittene politische Gestalt, eine Autoritat auf dem Gebiet der Kultur und eine charismatische Personlichkeit. In allen Phasen seines Lebens waren die Mathematik und die Musik seine Leitsterne. Man muss sein Leben der Arbeit widmen und nach den erhabenen Welten streben" war sein Motto. Durch die Entwicklung der spater nach ihm benannten Nevanlinna-Theorie erlangte er in den 1920er Jahren Weltruf. Er wurde zum Professor der Universitat Zurich berufen und zum Prasidenten der Internationalen Mathematischen Union gewahlt....
Rolf Nevanlinna (1895-1980) war ein weltberuhmter Mathematiker, eine umstrittene politische Gestalt, eine Autoritat auf dem Gebiet der Kultur und e...
At its meeting in April 1990 at the University of Cambridge, the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) decided that the largely unorganized archives of the Union should be properly arranged and catalogued. Simultaneously, the Executive Committee expressed the wish that a history of the Union should be written 1). As Secretary of the Union, I had proposed that these issues be dis cussed at the Cambridge meeting, but without having had in mind any personal role in the practical execution of such projects. At that time, the papers of the IMU were stored in Zurich, at...
At its meeting in April 1990 at the University of Cambridge, the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) decided that the la...
