The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van Der Waerden

by Alexander Soifer

Greetings to the Reader: What is History?.- Why Van der Waerden and Why Me?

The Family.- The Joys of Young Bartel.- Van der Waerden at Hamburg.- The Story of The Book.- The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions.- From G?ttingen to Groningen.- Transformations of The Book.- The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book.- On to Germany.- The Dawn of the Nazi Era.- The Princeton Offer.- Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher.- One Faculty Meeting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034807112
• ISBN13: 9783034807111
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"