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This chapter portrays the Editorial room of the Mathematische Annalen journal, and Editor-in-Chief Erich Hecke resignation in 1940 over Ferdinand Springer’d demand not to publish Jewish authors.
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Erich Hecke (Buk, Germany, presently Poznán, Poland 1887–1947, Copenhagen, Denmark), one of the best students of David Hilbert (Ph.D. 1910), a famous number theorist, professor at the University of Hamburg (1919–1947).
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Heinrich Behnke (1898–1979), one of Hecke’s best students.
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[Seg], pp. 440–441.
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Erich Hecke’s Mathematische Annalen editorial archive; Private collection of Prof. Dr. Holger P. Petersson.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Soifer, A. (2015). Mathematische Annalen. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_17
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