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During the Weimar years, the city of Frankfurt - characterized in the 19th century by a liberal middle class and home to an important Jewish community - blossomed into a center of German-Jewish intellectual life that was renowned even beyond the borders of Germany. In many branches of science, mathematics among them, innovative impulses originated in Frankfurt.
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See (Siegel 1964) and (Schwarz 2005).
Dehn’s escape — like the events in the lives of other Frankfurt mathematicians after 1933 — is described dramatically by (Siegel 1964).
See (Dehn 1940). This essay [On ornamentation] was written during his Norwegian exile. On Dehn’s “The mathematical ability in Humans” see also the essay “Mathematics in Culture” in this volume.
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Epple, M. (2012). Frankfurt. In: Bergmann, B., Epple, M., Ungar, R. (eds) Transcending Tradition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22464-5_8
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