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

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This chapter conveys young years of Van der Waerden, his studies at school and university and first visit of Göttingen.

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  1. 1.

    The connoisseurs of German literature have undoubtedly noticed in this title the homage to The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774, and The Joys of Young Werther (Die Freuden des jungen Werthers) by Friedrich Nicolai, 1775.

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    See my review of it in Geombinatorics XVI(2), 2006, 278–284, and in Zentralblatt für Mathematik.

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    [Dal2], pp. 516–519.

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    Max Euwe, the 1935 World Chess Champion; Lucas Smid, an insurance mathematician.

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    ETH, Hs 652 10563, 10563a, and 10563b.

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    Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC). I am most grateful to Prof. Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze for providing me with this and a few other 1925, 1927, and 1933 documents from RAC related to Van der Waerden.

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    Alexander Soifer

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Soifer, A. (2015). The Joys of Young Bartel24 . In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_4

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