With a Base in Berlin

Abstract

Arriving in plenty of time before the new semester began in mid-October, Gösta got himself settled in Berlin. He had found a room at Leipzigerstrasse 108, a ten-minute walk from the venerable Friedrich Wilhelm University (since 1948 called Humboldt University), near the fashionable boulevard of Unter den Linden. He would end up staying for three semesters – with a summer break in Switzerland and Göttingen. From a scholarly perspective, his time in Berlin would be quite decisive for Gösta. The knowledge he acquired and the impulses he received for further endeavors became the foundation for his work in the field of mathematics.