Mathematicians going east

Abstract

We survey emigration of mathematicians from Europe, before and during WWII, to Russia.

arXiv comment24 pages; v2: fixed typos, modified references

References in corpus (3)

• Myron Mathisson: what little we know of his life
• Distinguished graduates in mathematics of Jagiellonian University in the interwar period. Part II: 1928-1939
• Nikolay Luzin, his students, adversaries, and defenders (notes on the history of Moscow mathematics, 1914-1936)