Author: van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert [1903-1996]
Title: a collection of 18 offprints, ca. 1926-1940
Description: various, various publishers, 1926-1940. 24x15cm, EIGHTEEN [18] OFFPRINTS.. Several creased and / or stained. Two are rumpled. Good. ¶ This is a collection of 18 separate offprints, all by B.L. van der Waerden,each separately bound in original wrappers. Some are just a single page, others run 10 to 20 pages. All but one are in German. Includes "Zenon und die Grundlagenkrise der griechischen Mathematik"; "Die Klassifikation der einfachen Lieschen Gruppen"; Zur algebraischen Geometrie" parts 1 to 3; etc. ["Van der Waerden learned advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, from 1919 until 1926. He was much influenced by Emmy Noether at Göttingen, Germany. Amsterdam awarded him a Ph.D. for a thesis on algebraic geometry, supervised by Hendrick de Vries. Göttingen awarded him the habilitation in 1928. In that year, at the age of 25, he accepted a professorship at the University of Groningen. In his 27th year, van der Waerden published his Moderne Algebra, an influential two-volume treatise on abstract algebra, still cited, and perhaps the first treatise to treat the subject as a comprehensive whole. This work systematized an ample body of research by Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, Richard Dedekind, and Emil Artin. In the following year, 1931, he was appointed professor at the University of Leipzig...Van der Waerden is mainly remembered for his work on abstract algebra. He also wrote on algebraic geometry, topology, number theory, geometry, combinatorics, analysis, probability and statistics, and quantum mechanics (he and Heisenberg had been colleagues at Leipzig). In his later years, he turned to the history of mathematics and science..." - wikipedia].

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