Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Saly Ruth Struik, 1894–1993

  • Mathematical Communities
  • Published:
The Mathematical Intelligencer Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Figure 5

Notes

  1. Mathematics at the German University in Prague from 1882 until 1945, Karolinum, Praha, 2016 (Czech with an extended English summary).

  2. Antiquitates Mathematicae 10(1) (2016), pp. 181–216.

  3. Kolomea (today Kolomyia, Ukraine), a town dating back to the Middle Ages, was formerly in Galicia, a province of Austria-Hungary. In the nineteenth century, it was a railroad hub and a center of trade, inhabited by Ukrainians, Germans, Ruthenians, Poles, Romanians, and Jews.

  4. Sadagóra is a historic city in Bukovina (now Ukraine). It was famous as a center of Hassidism. German, Ukrainian, Romanian, and Jewish populations settled there.

  5. The so-called new building of the GU, depicted in Figure 1, opened in 1898 (Viničná Street, Prague 2, now the biology building of the Faculty of Science, Charles University) and later became the center of German mathematical and physical research in Prague. For more information, see footnote 1 above.

  6. For more information on mathematics at the GU, the Prague mathematical community, and its achievements, see footnote 1 above.

  7. The photo is available online at https://www.webcitation.org/5kwbOiM5G?url=http://fr.ca.encarta.msn.com/media_941562541/%C3%89lie_Cartan_et_Saly_Ruth_Ramler.html. [13.8.2018].

  8. D.J. Struik: A Letter from Dirk Struik, in R.S. Cohen, J.J. Stachel, M.W. Wartofsky (eds.): For Dirk Struik. Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. Struik, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, XV, Synthese Library, 61, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1974, pp. XIII–XVII; the quotation is from page XIV.

  9. See D.J. Struik, R. Struik: Cauchy and Bolzano in Prague, Isis 11(1928), pp. 364–366.

  10. Gli Elementi d’Euclide e la critica antica e moderna. Libri I–IV (Alberto Stock – Editore, Roma, 1925), Gli Elementi d’Euclide e la critica antica e moderna. Libri V–IX, Libro X and Libri XI–XIII (Nicola Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 1930, 1932, and 1936).

  11. See A.B. Powell, M. Frankenstein: In Memoriam of Dirk Jan Struik: Marxist Mathematician, Historian and Educator (30 September, 1894 – 21 October, 2000), For the Study of Mathematics, An International Journal of Mathematics Education 21(2001), no. 1, pp. 40–43; the quotation is from page 43.

  12. See Struik’s own account in his article The Struik Case of 1951, Monthly Review 44(1993), no. 8, pp. 31–48.

  13. See http://www.tufts.edu/as/math/struik.html. [23.7.2018].

  14. See S.R. Struik: Flächengleichheit und Cavalierische Gleichheit von Dreiecken, Elemente der Mathematik. Zeitschrift zur Pflege der Mathematik und zur Förderung des mathematisch-physikalischen Unterrichts 32(1977), no. 6, pp. 137–143.

  15. See review ZBL 0367.50004, available online at https://www.zbmath.org/?q=ai:struik.s-r. [23.7.2018].

  16. See review MR0513833, available online at http://www.ams.org/mathscinet. [23.7.2018].

  17. See review MR0513833, available online at http://www.ams.org/mathscinet. [23.7.2018].

  18. S.R. Struik: Flächengleichheit und Cavalierische Gleichheit von Dreiecken, Elemente der Mathematik. Zeitschrift zur Pflege der Mathematik und zur Förderung des mathematisch-physikalischen Unterrichts 32(1977), pp. 137–143; the quotation is from page 143.

  19. See O. Bottema: Equi-Affinities in Three-Dimensional Space. With a Dedication in French to D.S. Mitrinović on His Seventieth Birthday, Univerzitet u Beogradu. Publikacije Elektrotehnič Fakulteta. Serija Matematika i Fizika / Publications de la Faculté d’Electrotechnique de l’Université á Belgrade. Série Mathématiques et Physique, no. 602–633, 1978, no. 603, pp. 9–15.

  20. See http://www.tufts.edu/as/math/struik.html. [23.7.2018].

Acknowledgments

The research for this article was supported by the project The Impact of WWI on the Formation and Transformation of the Scientific Life of the Mathematical Community (GA CR 18-00449S).

My special thanks go to Prof. Marjorie Senechal for many consultations and for her help with the final version of this article and to David Kramer for his linguistic assistance.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Na Florenci 25, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Martina Bečvářová

Authors
  1. Martina Bečvářová
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Martina Bečvářová.

Additional information

This column is a forum for discussion of mathematical communities throughout the world, and through all time. Our definition of "mathematical community" is the broadest: "schools" of mathematics, circles of correspondence, mathematical societies, student organizations, extra-curricular educational activities (math camps, math museums, math clubs), and more. What we say about the communities is just as unrestricted. We welcome contributions from mathematicians of all kinds and in all places, and also from scientists, historians, anthropologists, and others.

Submissions should be uploaded to http://tmin.edmgr.com or sent directly to Marjorie Senechal, mi.editor1@gmail.com

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Bečvářová, M. Saly Ruth Struik, 1894–1993. Math Intelligencer 40, 79–85 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9835-1

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9835-1

Search

Navigation