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

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Greetings to the Reader: What Is History?
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    Chapter 2 Why Van der Waerden and Why Me?
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    Chapter 3 The Family
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    Chapter 4 The Joys of Young Bartel 24
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    Chapter 5 Van der Waerden at Hamburg
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    Chapter 6 The Story of The Book
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    Chapter 7 The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions
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    Chapter 8 From Göttingen to Groningen
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    Chapter 9 Transformations of The Book
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    Chapter 10 The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book
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    Chapter 11 On to Germany
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    Chapter 12 The Dawn of the Nazi Era
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    Chapter 13 The Princeton Job Offer
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    Chapter 14 Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher
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    Chapter 15 One Faculty Meeting at Leipzig
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    Chapter 16 A Cloud of Suspicion
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    Chapter 17 Mathematische Annalen
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    Chapter 18 Germany Treacherously Invades Holland
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    Chapter 19 Barrau’s Succession at Utrecht
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    Chapter 20 A Dream of Göttingen
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    Chapter 21 “Furniture and Scientific Books”
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    Chapter 22 Breidablik
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    Chapter 23 Home, Bittersweet Home
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    Chapter 24 The New World or Old?
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    Chapter 25 “The Defense”
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    Chapter 26 Van der Waerden and Van der Corput: Dialog in Letters
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    Chapter 27 One Heartfelt Letter to a Friend
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    Chapter 28 A Rebellion in Brouwer’s Amsterdam
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    Chapter 29 The Het Parool Affair
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    Chapter 30 Job History 1945–1947
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    Chapter 31 “America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee” 382
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    Chapter 32 Van der Waerden, Goudsmit, and Heisenberg: A Letteral Triangle
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    Chapter 33 On Active and Passive Opposition in the Third Reich
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    Chapter 34 Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg
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    Chapter 35 Professorship at Amsterdam
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    Chapter 36 Escape to Neutrality
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    Chapter 37 The Theorem Becomes Classic
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    Chapter 38 Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove?
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    Chapter 39 Zurück nach Zürich
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    Chapter 40 Reunions of Old Friends: Van der Waerden and Heisenberg
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    Chapter 41 The Drama of Van der Waerden
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    Chapter 42 The Scholar and the State
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    Chapter 43 Farewell to the Reader: “I Hope and I Hope” 533
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Title
The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden
Published by
Springer, November 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8
ISBNs
978-3-03-480712-8, 978-3-03-480711-1
Authors

Soifer, Alexander

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Country Count As %
Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 3 50%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 33%
Unknown 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Mathematics 2 33%
Environmental Science 1 17%
Computer Science 1 17%
Engineering 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%