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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Soifer, Alexander (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden made major contributions to algebraic geometry, abstract algebra, quantum mechanics, and other fields. He liberally published on the history of mathematics. His 2-volume work Modern Algebra is one of the most influential and popular mathematical books ever written. It...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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 Göttingen 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 at Leipzig
• A Cloud of Suspicion
• Mathematische Annalen
• Germany Treacherously Invades Holland
• Barrau’s Succession at Utrecht
• A Dream of Göttingen
• “Furniture and Scientific Books”
• Breidablik
• Home, Bittersweet Home
• The New World or Old?
• “The Defense”
• Van der Waerden and Van der Corput: Dialog in Letters
• One Heartfelt Letter to a Friend
• A Rebellion in Brouwer’s Amsterdam
• The Het Parool Affair
• Job History 1945–1947
• “America! America! God shed His grace on thee”
• Van der Waerden, Goudsmit and Heisenberg: A Letteral Triangle
• On Active and Passive Opposition in the Third Reich
• Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg
• Professorship at Amsterdam
• Escape to Neutrality
• The Theorem Becomes Classic
• Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove?
• Zurück nach Zürich
• Reunions of Old Friends: Van der Waerden and Heisenberg
• The Drama of Van der Waerden
• The Scholar and the State
• Farewell to the Reader: “I Hope and I Hope”.