In Search of Van der Waerden: The Unsettling Years, 1946–1951

Alexander Soifer
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Alexander Soifer: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

Chapter Chapter 42 in The New Mathematical Coloring Book, 2024, pp 531-596 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I find it surprising that the early press records have been completely overlooked and never mentioned by earlier biographers of Van der Waerden. Did they view the news reports to be too much off the cuff and not carrying lasting truths? Yes, the shelf life of a newspaper is one day, but it captures – and preserves – the zeitgeist, the spirit of the day, better than anything else available to a historian. Moreover, in our Drama of Van der Waerden, a newspaper was also an important player. I will therefore use newspapers liberally and unapologetically.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3597-1_42

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