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D. M. Sintzov and the German mathematicians. (Russian) Zbl 0903.01018

This gives the background to and prints the 3 pages of an unpublished account of a trip to Germany in 1927 by Dmitrii Mitrofanovich Sintsov: it throws light on German-Soviet relations in the 1920s. Sintsov was a key figure in Soviet-German cooperation in mathematics, especially in geometry: Sintsov visited Göttingen several times, as well as Berlin, and worked with Klein, Lie, Emil Lampe, on the reviewing journals (such as Fortschritte für Mathematik, with 2000 contributions from Russian mathematics), Klein’s Enzyklopädie der Mathematik, and the world-wide review of the teaching of mathematics. The report drops the names of most of the important mathematicians of the time in Berlin, Göttingen, Zürich, and Hamburg, of organizations, journals, publishers and prices. Just one piece of mathematics is dignified by an equation (Pfaff’s problem for a first order differential).

MSC:

01A80 Sociology (and profession) of mathematics
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
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