The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book

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

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden, 2015, pp 59-66 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we discover why the algebraic revolution of the 1920s–1930s produced only one book, “Moderne Algebra” by Van der Waerden.

Keywords: Galois Theory; Bryn Mawr College; Jewish Refugee; Handwritten Letter; Springer Firing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_10

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