Mathematician:Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
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Mathematician
Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics.
Nationality
Dutch
History
- Born: 2 February 1903 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Died: 12 January 1996 in Zürich, Switzerland
Theorems and Definitions
- Van der Waerden's Theorem
- Van der Waerden Number
- Van der Waerden Test
- Van der Waerden Notation
- Van der Waerden's Conjecture
Publications
- 1926: De algebraiese grondslagen der meetkunde van het aantal (doctoral thesis)
- 1930: Moderne Algebra
- 1932: Die gruppentheoretische Methode in der Quantenmechanik
- 1939: Einführung in die Algebraische Geometrie
- 1947: Die Arithmetik der Pythagoreer
- 1951: Die Astronomie der Pythagoreer
- 1950: Ontwakende Wetenschap
- 1954: Science Awakening (translation of Ontwakende Wetenschap into English)
- 1974: Science Awakening II: The Birth of Astronomy
- 1983: Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations
- 1985: A History of Algebra
- 1986: Francesco Severi and the foundations of algebraic geometry
- 1987: On Greek and Hindu trigonometry
- 1987: The heliocentric system in Greek, Persian and Hindu astronomy
- 1988: The astronomical system of the Persian tables
- 1988: On the Romaka-Siddhanta
- 1988: Reconstruction of a Greek table of chords
- 1988: The motion of Venus in Greek, Egyptian and Indian texts