The war of frogs and mice, or the crisis of the Mathematische Annalen
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1987-12
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Dalen, D. van
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Abstract
On 27 October 1928, a curious telegram was delivered to L.E.J. Brouwer,
a telegram that was to plunge him into a con
ict that for some months
threatened to split the German mathematical community. This telegram
set into motion a train of events that was to lead to the end of Brouwer's
involvement in the a airs of German mathematicians and indirectly to the
conclusion of the Grundlagenstreit.
The story of the ensuing con
ict...