Einstein's Tutor by Lee Phillips

Author:Lee Phillips [Phillips, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2024-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

5

The Purge

“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries.”

The German academic game of competition for professors has figured several times in this story. The personnel files of Göttingen University contain a typical document relating to the constant threat of the poaching of prominent scholars. It’s a letter from 1926 by mathematician Richard Courant warning that other institutions may be planning to lure away famous physicist Max Born.1 Courant urges that Göttingen should make an active effort to retain Born, because he is “one of those colleagues upon whom the international reputation of this University rests.”

Near the word “colleagues” an anonymous official has penciled in the word “Jews.”

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