The war of frogs and mice, or the crisis of the Mathematische Annalen

Abstract

On 27 October 1928, a curious telegram was delivered to L.E.J. Brouwer, a telegram that was to plunge him into a con ict that for some months threatened to split the German mathematical community. This telegram set into motion a train of events that was to lead to the end of Brouwer's involvement in the a airs of German mathematicians and indirectly to the conclusion of the Grundlagenstreit. The story of the ensuing con ict...