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Rockefeller Philanthropy and Mathematical Emigration between World Wars

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, Gimlemoen, Postboks 422, 4604, Kristiansand S, Norway

    Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

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This article discusses one aspect of Rockefeller support for mathematics: the emigration of mathematicians from Europe. For the broader policies of the Rockefeller philanthropies for internationalization of mathematics, see my monograph Siegmund-Schultze (2001), which together with other sources will be broadly used in the following and will be quoted as RI.

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Siegmund-Schultze, R. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Mathematical Emigration between World Wars. Math Intelligencer 37, 10–19 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9530-9

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