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After the War of the Frogs and the Mice Brouwer more or less retired from the scene. Freudenthal, Hopf’s student, was appointed as his assistant in Amsterdam. Brouwer fought an investment scandal involving a health spa in Budapest, and founded a new mathematics journal, Compositio Mathematica. Heyting introduced his formal system for intuitionistic logic and arithmetic. The foundational atmosphere clearly was improving. The rise of the nazi regime is discussed, including an attempt of the new authorities to lure Brouwer to Göttingen; which predictably failed. At the end of the thirties Brouwer briefly returned to topology with a proof of the triangulation property for differentiable manifolds, only to find out that an American mathematician, Cairns, had already solved that case.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Brouwer to Wirtinger, 11.I.1929.

  2. 2.

    Brouwer to Ehrenhaft, 1.IV.1930.

  3. 3.

    Brouwer to Ehrenhaft, 19.IV.1930.

  4. 4.

    Part of the file was taken to Moscow after Brouwer’s death by Alexandrov, and the remains that survived two fires and several transfers is in the Brouwer Archive.

  5. 5.

    For more on Freudenthal’s Berlin years, see Freudenthal (1987a).

  6. 6.

    Freudenthal may have been a bit prejudiced; Rutherford mentions another experience: ‘In the winter of 1929 Professor Weitzenböck pointed out to me that there was no complete account of the theory of modular invariants embodying the work of Dickson, Glenn and Hazlett. … The substance of Part II is largely taken from a course of lectures entitled “Algebraïsche theorie der lichamen” which Professor Weitzenböck delivered in Amsterdam University during the session 1929–30.’ Rutherford (1932).

  7. 7.

    According to Freudenthal, Hurewicz presented Gödel’s incompleteness theorem in a seminar. He also refereed foundational papers (including Heyting’s big logic papers).

  8. 8.

    Freudenthal to Hopf, 22.XII.1930.

  9. 9.

    First semester of 1930/31.

  10. 10.

    De Donder to Brouwer, 26.X.1929.

  11. 11.

    Brouwer to De Donder, 13.VI.1930.

  12. 12.

    Brouwer to De Donder, 9.X.1930.

  13. 13.

    Heyting (1931b).

  14. 14.

    Brouwer to Heyting, 20.IX.1930.

  15. 15.

    Heyting (1931a).

  16. 16.

    Heyting (1932). Note that the discussion actually took place in 1933. For the Barzin–Errera–Heyting discussion, see also Hesseling (2002).

  17. 17.

    Cf. Herbrand (1971), pp. 273, 282 ff.

  18. 18.

    Freudenthal to Hopf, 2.IX.1931. The reference to bishops in jail is probably a bit of irreverent gossip, the notes in the archive do not mention such a thing.

  19. 19.

    He visited Budapest at least 37 times between 1930 and 1939!

  20. 20.

    However, the last correspondence concerning Sodalitas was dated 1951, and the last remittance took place in 1971!

  21. 21.

    Departementshoofd.

  22. 22.

    Assistants earned at that time 1000 guilders. The proposed raise was 200 guilders.

  23. 23.

    The so-called ‘openbare les’, i.e. ‘public lecture’.

  24. 24.

    Speakers: Alexandrov, Borsuk, Hurewicz, Kaufmann, Knaster.

  25. 25.

    Mathematische Grundlagenforschung. Intuitionismus, Beweistheorie.

  26. 26.

    Heyting, oral communication.

  27. 27.

    Brouwer to Korteweg, 23.I.1907.

  28. 28.

    See e.g. van Dalen (2004).

  29. 29.

    See for example Brouwer (1923d, 1925d).

  30. 30.

    The student who took the notes was David van Dantzig, who was to contribute to the foundations himself much later.

  31. 31.

    Most of the historical information on Van Dantzig is taken from Alberts’ biography, Alberts (2000).

  32. 32.

    See p. 4.

  33. 33.

    Van der Waerden to Schouten, 22.IV.1932.

  34. 34.

    van Dantzig (1931).

  35. 35.

    Ehrenfest to Van der Waerden, 6.II.1930.

  36. 36.

    Courant to Ehrenfest, 9.II.1930. Courant informed Ehrenfest that Van der Waerden was number 3 on the list for Hilbert’s succession.

  37. 37.

    Einfachste Grundbegriffe der Topologie, Alexandrov (1932).

  38. 38.

    Combinatorial and set theoretic topology.

  39. 39.

    Alexandroff (1932), p. 26.

  40. 40.

    Brouwer to Alexandrov, 20.X.1932.

  41. 41.

    Lize to Brouwer, 7.IX.1932.

  42. 42.

    It should be pointed out that a knighthood in the Netherlands carried no side benefits; there is no title attached to it and it does not lend social or legal status to a person. It is no more and no less than a sign of royal appreciation.

  43. 43.

    Brouwer to Van der Corput, 23.XI.1933. Cf. p. 600.

  44. 44.

    Brouwer to Van der Corput, 5.X.1935.

  45. 45.

    Vollenhove (1918).

  46. 46.

    Herman Dooyeweerd (1884–1977) was a law professor at the Calvinist Vrije Universiteit. His fame rests on his philosophy, as presented in De wijsbegeerte van de wetsidee (1935–36).

  47. 47.

    For a discussion of the role of intuitionism in Van Vollenhoven’s thinking, see Blauwendraat (2004).

  48. 48.

    Brouwer (1905, 1919b, 1929a, 1933a, 1949c).

  49. 49.

    Revész (1933).

  50. 50.

    Oral communication, Mrs. C. Vuijsje.

  51. 51.

    See Remmert (2004a, 2004b).

  52. 52.

    Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums. Cf. Schappacher and Kneser (1990), Craig (1981), p. 579.

  53. 53.

    Pinl and Furtmüller (1973).

  54. 54.

    Schappacher and Kneser (1990), p. 27. Schappacher pointed out that the authorities might have been in a hurry to handle the Göttingen mathematics department, in order to forestall possible student actions against the institute or individual mathematicians. The institute was viewed as a ‘bastion of Marxism’. For background information on the political landscape and the ensuring developments, see also the above mentioned exposition.

  55. 55.

    See Reid (1986), Chap. 15.

  56. 56.

    Teichmüller would have become one of the top mathematicians of his generation, had he survived the war. He volunteered in 1939 for military service and fell in 1943 at the eastern front. For mathematical and historical information, see Schappacher and Scholz (1992).

  57. 57.

    Mannoury to Brouwer, 17.VI.1933.

  58. 58.

    The National Socialist regime carried the political use of language to unknown heights; such terms as ‘Gleichschalten’ had a normal everyday meaning, but under the regime it acquired a new one: ‘following the Nazidoctrine’, or even cruder, ‘eliminating opposition and deviant ideas and practice’.

  59. 59.

    Vahlen’s life and career is discussed in Siegmund-Schultze (1984). For Bieberbach, see Mehrtens (1987).

  60. 60.

    Abstrakte Geometrie, Vahlen (1905b).

  61. 61.

    Dehn (1905), Vahlen (1905a).

  62. 62.

    Vahlen (1911).

  63. 63.

    Vahlen (1922, 1942).

  64. 64.

    Einstein to Hedwig Born, Einstein and Born (1969).

  65. 65.

    Communication of H. Freudenthal.

  66. 66.

    Mehrtens (1987). Our presentation makes substantial use of this paper.

  67. 67.

    Bieberbach’s inaugural lecture, Bieberbach (1914), the translation is Mehrtens’.

  68. 68.

    Bieberbach (1924).

  69. 69.

    Boutroux (1920). Bieberbach read the German translation.

  70. 70.

    A society of patrons and supporters of education in the exact sciences.

  71. 71.

    Vom Wissenschaftsideal der Mathematiker, 15.II.1926.

  72. 72.

    Schütz Abteilung, the storm troopers of the Party.

  73. 73.

    Mehrtens (1987).

  74. 74.

    Ibid. p. 227.

  75. 75.

    Mehrtens (1987), p. 224. Bieberbach (1934).

  76. 76.

    Lindner (1980), p. 95.

  77. 77.

    Mehrtens (1987), p. 228.

  78. 78.

    Mehrtens (1987), p. 228.

  79. 79.

    See Menzler-Trott (2001), Chap. 4, and the literature cited in that book.

  80. 80.

    Hardy (1934). Also in Math. Intelligencer, 6 (1984).

  81. 81.

    Cf. p. 562.

  82. 82.

    Brouwer (1909a, 1912a, 1919b). Noordhoff listed Brouwer’s publications regularly in his catalogue. In 1922, 1926, 1928, 1933: De onbetrouwbaarheid der logische principes, Het Wezen der Meetkunde, Intuïtionisme en Formalisme (collected in Wiskunde, Waarheid, Werkelijkheid), Over de Grondslagen der Wiskunde, Luchtvaart en Photogrammetrie. In 1938, 1940,1942, 1948, De onbetrouwbaarheid der logische principes, Het Wezen der Meetkunde, Intuïtionisme en Formalisme. In 1949 only De Uitdrukkingswijze der Wetenschap (containing Brouwer 1933b), this item appeared for the last time in the catalogue of 1958.

  83. 83.

    Brouwer to Noordhoff, 10.X.1929, cf. also p. 504.

  84. 84.

    From Brouwer’s letter to Veblen, 11.X.1930.

  85. 85.

    Hadamard to Einstein, 16.X.1930.

  86. 86.

    Einstein to Hadamard, 15.XI.1930.

  87. 87.

    This is a somewhat free translation of the German text. There is probably an English version somewhere in some archive, but I have not found any.

  88. 88.

    Freudenthal to Hopf, 22.XII.1930.

  89. 89.

    Brouwer schimpft jetzt auf Alexandrov.

  90. 90.

    Bieberbach to Brouwer, 21.VI.1934.

  91. 91.

    For Harald Bohr’s reaction on Bieberbach’s anti-internationalist position and his co-operation with the internationalist journal Compositio, see Bohr (1934), Schappacher and Kneser (1990).

  92. 92.

    Cf. Remmert (1999), p. 18.

  93. 93.

    Bieberbach to Brouwer, 8.I.1935.

  94. 94.

    Brouwer to Bieberbach, 15.I.1935.

  95. 95.

    Bieberbach to Doetsch, 19.I.1935.

  96. 96.

    Brouwer to Doetsch, 20.III.1935.

  97. 97.

    Doetsch to Feigl, 16.VII.1934.

  98. 98.

    See Remmert (1999). Bieberbach had failed in his coup at the meeting of the DMV, Schappacher and Kneser (1990).

  99. 99.

    Alexandroff–Hopf, Topologie. Dedicated to Brouwer.

  100. 100.

    ‘… aus der Redaktion vom Compositio Mathematica sämtliche reichsdeutsche Mitglieder ausgeschieden sind, …’

  101. 101.

    Blumenthal to Hilbert, 11.XI.1933.

  102. 102.

    Schappacher (1987), p. 354.

  103. 103.

    Reid (1986), p 402. See also Schappacher and Kneser (1990).

  104. 104.

    Brouwer was in German circles described as deutschfreundlich. This term acquired after 1933 a very specific meaning: pro Nazi. But before 1933 it just meant what it said: sympathetic towards Germany and Germans. It is not unusual for commentators to confuse the two meanings.

  105. 105.

    Tornier to Brouwer, 19.VI.1934.

  106. 106.

    Ich erlaube mir nun die Anfrage, ob Sie, den viele deutsche Mathematiker mit mir schon lange für einen der grössten Forscher von typische germanischer Prägung halten, bereit wären, den alten Ruf der Göttinger Mathematik neu begründen zu helfen.

  107. 107.

    Bohr to Veblen, 11.VIII.1934, cf. Segal (1986).

  108. 108.

    Siegmund-Schultze (2001), p. 191.

  109. 109.

    Brouwer to Veblen, 20.X.1934.

  110. 110.

    Sister society of the AA and AAA.

  111. 111.

    Interview, H.P. de Klerk, junior.

  112. 112.

    gemeenteraden.

  113. 113.

    Private communication, J.J. Oversteegen.

  114. 114.

    Weitzenböck (1923).

  115. 115.

    Balke (1973), p. 101.

  116. 116.

    Helen Ernst, an artist.

  117. 117.

    Hübner (2002).

  118. 118.

    eine Hütte “mit bohème-artiger Verpflegung”.

  119. 119.

    There are some post 1945 documents in the archive that refer to land property in Poland. No details are given.

  120. 120.

    Heyting (1936a), Freudenthal (1936).

  121. 121.

    Cf. van Dalen (2004), Kuiper (2004).

  122. 122.

    The fact that Heyting was an associate editor may be explained by the distribution of the specialisms. There was already ample topological expertise in the board, but Heyting was the only foundationalist.

  123. 123.

    Inaugural address, 28.V.1931.

  124. 124.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 20.VIII.1935.

  125. 125.

    Freudenthal to Brouwer, 12.VIII.1936.

  126. 126.

    In Dutch, a ‘juffrouw’. Today it would be insulting, it was not so in the old days.

  127. 127.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 17.VIII.1936.

  128. 128.

    Freudenthal, oral communication.

  129. 129.

    Ibid.

  130. 130.

    To commemorate the centenary of Van der Waals’ birth.

  131. 131.

    For a survey of triangulation, see Kuiper (1979), also reproduced in James (1999).

  132. 132.

    Oral communication, Freudenthal.

  133. 133.

    Freudenthal slightly extended the results by showing that C q-manifolds allowed C q-triangulations.

  134. 134.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 8.VII.1939.

  135. 135.

    Brouwer to Rosenthal, 4.X.1939.

  136. 136.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 4.X.1939.

  137. 137.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 25.X.1939.

  138. 138.

    Freudenthal to Brouwer, 27.X.1939.

  139. 139.

    Freudenthal to Brouwer, 18.III.1940; Cairns to Freudenthal, 14.I.1940; Cairns (1935).

  140. 140.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 30.IV.1940.

  141. 141.

    Brouwer (1939).

  142. 142.

    Freudenthal (1939).

  143. 143.

    Oral communication Mrs. J.F. Heyting-van Anrooy, the later wife of Arend Heyting.

  144. 144.

    Published in De Tribune, a communist journal, 16.I.1937. See also Fasseur (2001), p. 144 ff.

  145. 145.

    Bonger took his life when the Germans invaded Holland.

  146. 146.

    Pontryagin to Lefschetz, 29.XII.1939.

  147. 147.

    Brouwer to Freudenthal, 2.III.1940.

  148. 148.

    See Behnke (1978).

  149. 149.

    Behnke to Van Dalen, 27.XI.1976.

  150. 150.

    Blumenthal (1935).

  151. 151.

    Blumenthal’s 1939–1943 diaries have been published by Volkmar Felsch, Felsch (2011).

  152. 152.

    A transit camp from where Jews were sent to the camps in Germany.

  153. 153.

    Cf. p. 623, see also Siegmund-Schultze (1984).

  154. 154.

    In Brouwer’s words ‘sein tiefsinniges und suggestives, viel zu wenig gewürdigtes Werk über geometrische Grundlagenfragen; “Abstrakte Geometrie”’.

  155. 155.

    Wim Bierens de Haan.

  156. 156.

    Most of the information on this episode was provided by Mrs. Van Wering.

  157. 157.

    Mayor of Hilversum to Brouwer, 15.VI.1938.

  158. 158.

    Trustees to council, 13.VII.1939.

  159. 159.

    A semi-official institution providing (mostly evening) courses in various areas.

  160. 160.

    repetitor.

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van Dalen, D. (2013). The Thirties. In: L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4616-2_15

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