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In this chapter we compare the first three editions of Van der Waerden’s “Moderne Algebra” and learn about his—and the book’s—fluctuations between Hilbert’s and Brouwer’s views on the foundations of mathematics.
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Waerden, B. L. van der, Moderne Algebra, vol. 1(1937) and 2(1940), 2nd ed., Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin.
Waerden, B. L. van der, Moderne Algebra, vol. 1 and 2(1950), 3rd ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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Soifer, A. (2015). Transformations of The Book. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_9
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