Mathematician:Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

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: (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