Speaker: Julian Gould
Abstract: The founding of the Weimar Republic in Germany at the end of World War One opened the doors of mathematics academia for Jewish people. The rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s closed those doors tighter than ever before. What happened in math departments in Germany under the Nazi regime? How did the content, teaching, and research of mathematics change? In this talk, we will look the history of mathematics under the Third Reich, with an emphasis on the way Nazi politics and culture impacted life within academia. This important period of history has relevant lessons about how mathematics can be politicized today and in the future. I greatly encourage all members of our community, including faculty, to attend.