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Interesting how Teichmueller has a bunch of stuff named after him, yet there's very little information about him to be had. There are some references on Google

Interesting how Teichmueller has a bunch of stuff named after him, yet there's very little information about him to be had. There are some references on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22o+teichmueller%22&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5 https://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22o+teichmueller%22&btn.... He is certainly published in more than a single journal, however. However there are no references to him on his "discoveries". Note the lack of a history section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller_space and compare that to the section on Hilbert space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_space#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_space#History On the other hand, Felix Hausdorff, who also appears to have worked in the same field (though topology is probably a far broader field than I can understand) has plenty of information readily available. This is conjecture, but the mere lack of solid information on Teichmueller could lend credence to some of what you say. There is a book about mathematics under the Nazis, which would likely cover a lot of ground http://www.jstor.org/stable/20453494?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://www.jstor.org/stable/20453494?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con... Anyway, bit of a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

williamjennings 11y ago
The interesting thing is that the stuff named after O. Teichmueller is originally named after other mathematicians. Those journals all have the same name until the postwar period when they become taboo to cite. The names were changed and some of the propaganda was removed during the reconstruction of Germany. However, the unreferenced and politically reprehensible nature of Teichmueller is just reasons for his extirpation from the mathematical literature. It is the best way to do justice to his German contemporaries, some of whom were Holocaust victims. Consider Felix Hausdorff as the injured party who worked on exactly the same subject of topological metric spaces. The lack of information on Teichmueller is because his record is obscene, and thusly being curtailed. He would have been found guilty of war crimes had he survived the war. The problem with Mathematics under the Nazis is that most academics engaged in plagiarism, and justified the theft with false notions of racial purity. The draconian Nazi party forced their best minds to emigrate, and the list those who fled includes: Herman Weyl, Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Emmy Noether, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam, Wolfgang Pauli, and Max Born. Topology is not too difficult to understand, it is only esoteric. The historiography of brutal dictatorships is both arduous and mysterious. I am only familiar with the ten names because I have enjoyed citing them in my work. The most inspiring part of the story is that the intellectual migrants were employed in the research and development of weapons that would later defeat Nazism.

williamjennings 11y ago

The interesting thing is that the stuff named after O. Teichmueller is originally named after other mathematicians. Those journals all have the same name until the postwar period when they become taboo to cite. The names were changed and some of the propaganda was removed during the reconstruction of Germany. However, the unreferenced and politically reprehensible nature of Teichmueller is just reasons for his extirpation from the mathematical literature. It is the best way to do justice to his German contemporaries, some of whom were Holocaust victims. Consider Felix Hausdorff as the injured party who worked on exactly the same subject of topological metric spaces. The lack of information on Teichmueller is because his record is obscene, and thusly being curtailed. He would have been found guilty of war crimes had he survived the war. The problem with Mathematics under the Nazis is that most academics engaged in plagiarism, and justified the theft with false notions of racial purity. The draconian Nazi party forced their best minds to emigrate, and the list those who fled includes: Herman Weyl, Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Emmy Noether, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam, Wolfgang Pauli, and Max Born. Topology is not too difficult to understand, it is only esoteric. The historiography of brutal dictatorships is both arduous and mysterious. I am only familiar with the ten names because I have enjoyed citing them in my work. The most inspiring part of the story is that the intellectual migrants were employed in the research and development of weapons that would later defeat Nazism.