G?ttingen's SUB as Repository for the Papers of Distinguished Mathematicians

摘要

For over a century, the G?ttingen State and University Library (SUB) has served as an important repository for writings, correspondence and other documents of value for the history of mathematics. These collections date back to the early years of the university when the polymath mathematician Abraham Gotthelf K?stner and the astronomer Tobias Mayer were among its more prominent faculty members. Today, the Department of Special Collections (Spezialsammlungen) in the old library of the SUB houses over 50 collections of papers as bequests (Nachl?sse) of prominent mathematicians, most of whom were associated with the university. Since 1997, information relating to these holdings can be found in the databank HANS (http://hans.sub.unigoettingen.de/), an acronym for Handschriften, Autographen, Nachlasse and Sonderbest?nde.