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

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

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Date: 2015
Edition: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-0348-0712-8
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Chapters in this book:

Ch Chapter 1 Greetings to the Reader: What Is History?
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Ch Chapter 10 The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book
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Ch Chapter 11 On to Germany
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Ch Chapter 12 The Dawn of the Nazi Era
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Ch Chapter 13 The Princeton Job Offer
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Ch Chapter 14 Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher
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Ch Chapter 15 One Faculty Meeting at Leipzig
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Ch Chapter 16 A Cloud of Suspicion
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Ch Chapter 17 Mathematische Annalen
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Ch Chapter 18 Germany Treacherously Invades Holland
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Ch Chapter 19 Barrau’s Succession at Utrecht
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Ch Chapter 2 Why Van der Waerden and Why Me?
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Ch Chapter 20 A Dream of Göttingen
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Ch Chapter 21 Furniture and Scientific Books
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Ch Chapter 22 Breidablik
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Ch Chapter 23 Home, Bittersweet Home
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Ch Chapter 24 The New World or Old?
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Ch Chapter 25 The Defense
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Ch Chapter 26 Van der Waerden and Van der Corput: Dialog in Letters
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Ch Chapter 27 One Heartfelt Letter to a Friend
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Ch Chapter 28 A Rebellion in Brouwer’s Amsterdam
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Ch Chapter 29 The Het Parool Affair
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Ch Chapter 3 The Family
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Ch Chapter 30 Job History 1945–1947
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Ch Chapter 31 “America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee”382
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Ch Chapter 32 Van der Waerden, Goudsmit, and Heisenberg: A Letteral Triangle
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Ch Chapter 33 On Active and Passive Opposition in the Third Reich
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Ch Chapter 34 Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg
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Ch Chapter 35 Professorship at Amsterdam
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Ch Chapter 36 Escape to Neutrality
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Ch Chapter 37 The Theorem Becomes Classic
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Ch Chapter 38 Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove?
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Ch Chapter 39 Zurück nach Zürich
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Ch Chapter 4 The Joys of Young Bartel24
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Ch Chapter 40 Reunions of Old Friends: Van der Waerden and Heisenberg
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Ch Chapter 41 The Drama of Van der Waerden
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Ch Chapter 42 The Scholar and the State
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Ch Chapter 43 Farewell to the Reader: “I Hope and I Hope”533
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Ch Chapter 5 Van der Waerden at Hamburg
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Ch Chapter 6 The Story of The Book
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Ch Chapter 7 The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions
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Ch Chapter 8 From Göttingen to Groningen
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Ch Chapter 9 Transformations of The Book
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