The Story of The Book

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

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden, 2015, pp 39-46 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter conveys, apparently for the first time, the story of the creation of the legendary two-volume “Moderne Algebra” by Van der Waerden and the role of Emil Artin in creating this book.

Keywords: Galois Theory; Abstract Algebra; Title Page; Nice Thing; Handwritten Letter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_6

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