I visited Göttingen in the middle of July, to see friends and give a talk in a seminar. All of us were mathematicians, so we we went to sight-see and math-sight-see. :)
Here's the
observatory of Gauß:
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| Gaußische Sternwarte :) |
In the nice cemetery was his grave-stone. His name is written in old Fraktur -- you can see how "ß" is a ligature of the two kinds of s's that were written there (the long one that looks more like an "l", followed by the "normal" one) at the end of his name:
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| das Grab von Gauß |
We also saw Riemann's house, but it didn't look that interesting, so I give you no picture of it .
We went through the math building and looked at the model collection they have there. At the university of Illinois, we had many models as well (one of the profs had been a student of Klein, a very important prof in the history of Uni Göttingen, and he'd had the models ordered for U Illinois).
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| mathematical models |
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| Boy's surface |
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| 3-fold toroidal Möbiusband with cloverleaf-knot as boundary |
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| Orthogonal Familis on the sphere |
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| hyperbolic stuff |
There were also soap-bubble frames which produced nice geometric shapes:
We also saw some of the books in the rather expansive collections of famous mathematicians:
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| Bücher, die zum Prof. Klein gehört |
Outside of mathematical things, we also went through the
old botanical garden. It was not everywhere well taken care of, for instance, this desert greenhouse:
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| nicht so gut gepflegt |
On the edge of the garden was a nice Cafe,
Cafe Botanik. I drank a ,,persian Dream'' on the first day and on the second day we had breakfast there. Very tasty. I also found the plateware very sweet and nice:
A little about/in Göttingen itself. I think it's great that Göttingen still has its old
fortifications/wall. Here is how part of it looks now:
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| Wallanlagen |
More photos (by someone else)
here.
There were also a fair amount of murals and graffiti. Here was the back side of an Aldi (Fairer handel ~ fair trade):
There were also some like this following, which were paper glued onto a wall (perhaps nicer/easier to take off later?):
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| Graffitti |
There was also an interesting-looking memorial for the former synagogue.
How it looked depended strongly on exactly where one stood/faced. Here are two views:
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| nearby |
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| from below |
Here is a pdf which has the story (in German) and also another picture where you can see another star (from the shadows produced).
Göttingen wasn't really bombed during the second world war, so they still have a lot of old buildings:
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| I think this is the oldest that still stood |
And, in closing, have some art :)
[Pending blog entries: my entire trip to Austria, which was 18.07 - 28.07 :) ]
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