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ensure accuracy. Biographical Memoirs: VOLUME 75 and curiously
stirred up a good deal of controversy. In 1927 he received his
venia legendi for the history of mathematics, and in the fall
term became Privatdozent and began lecturing on mathematics and
on the history of ancient mathematics. At this time he married
Grete Bruck, a fellow student and very fine mathematician, who
later assisted him in much of his work. They had two children,
Margo, born in 1929, and Gerry in 1932. In 1929 he founded, with
O. Toeplitz and J. Stenzel as co-editors, Quellen und Studien
zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Astronomie undPhysik (QS), a
Springer series devoted to the history of the mathematical
sciences and divided into two parts, Abteilung A for the
publication of sources and B for studies, in which he published
extended papers on Egyptian compu