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Professorship at Amsterdam

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

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Van der Waerden finally gets a full professorship in Holland, but right in his inaugural lecture announces his resignation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    [Dal2, pp. 829–830].

  2. 2.

    [Dal3, p. 329].

  3. 3.

    More precisely, Hilbert dismissed everyone from the Editorial Board, and then invited everyone except Brouwer back. Einstein chose not to come back, but that is another matter.

  4. 4.

    [Dal2, p. 827].

  5. 5.

    Het Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Finding aid 2.14.17, record number 73—dossier B.L. van der Waerden. Department of Education, Arts and Sciences.

  6. 6.

    Ibid.

  7. 7.

    Ibid.

  8. 8.

    Ibid.

  9. 9.

    In view of Prof. Schouten’s 1946 and 1950 letters of reference for Prof. Van der Waerden’s Swiss appointment, it is hard to understand his disappointment.

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Soifer, A. (2015). Professorship at Amsterdam. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_35

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