Episodes of interferences of War and Mathematics in the Life and Work of Werner Fenchel
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Episodes of interferences of War and Mathematics in the Life and Work of Werner Fenchel. / Kjeldsen, Tinne Hoff.
In: Amazônia, Vol. 16, No. 35, 2020, p. 15-27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Episodes of interferences of War and Mathematics in the Life and Work of Werner Fenchel
AU - Kjeldsen, Tinne Hoff
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In the present paper we study episodes of the life and work of the German-Danish mathematician Werner Fenchel from the perspective of the significance of the Second World War. On the one hand, we will see how the mathematical society, in particularly the mathematician Harald Bohr, helped Fenchel to set up an academic life in Copenhagen, Denmark. On the other hand, we will see how the organisation of scientists’ contribution to the war effort in the USA during the war, and the post war military financing of academic research in the post war period interfered with some of Fenchel’s mathematical work, especially his contribution to duality theory in nonlinear programming. As such, the study presented is this paper contributes to our understanding of how mathematics and conditions of a particular place and time interfere in the history of mathematics.
AB - In the present paper we study episodes of the life and work of the German-Danish mathematician Werner Fenchel from the perspective of the significance of the Second World War. On the one hand, we will see how the mathematical society, in particularly the mathematician Harald Bohr, helped Fenchel to set up an academic life in Copenhagen, Denmark. On the other hand, we will see how the organisation of scientists’ contribution to the war effort in the USA during the war, and the post war military financing of academic research in the post war period interfered with some of Fenchel’s mathematical work, especially his contribution to duality theory in nonlinear programming. As such, the study presented is this paper contributes to our understanding of how mathematics and conditions of a particular place and time interfere in the history of mathematics.
U2 - 10.18542/amazrecm.v16i35.8559
DO - 10.18542/amazrecm.v16i35.8559
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 15
EP - 27
JO - Amazônia
JF - Amazônia
SN - 2317-5125
IS - 35
ER -
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