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Overview
Soifer’s journey through a long list of archives, combined with an intensive correspondence, had uncovered numerous details of Van der Waerden’s German intermezzo that raised serious questions and reproaches.
Dirk van Dalen (Philosophy, Utrecht University)
Professor Soifer’s book implicates the anthropologists’ and culture historians’ core interest in the evolution of culture and in the progress of human evolution itself on this small contested planet.
James W. Fernandez (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
The book is fascinating. Professor Soifer has done a great service to the discipline of history, as well as deepening our understanding of the 20th century.
Peter D. Johnson, Jr. (Mathematics, Auburn University)
This book is an important contribution to the history of the twentieth century, and reads like a novel with an ever-fascinating cast of characters.
Harold W. Kuhn (Mathematics, Princeton University)
This is a most impressive and important book. It is written in an engaging, very personal style and challenges the reader’s ability of moral and historical judgment. While it is not always written in the style of ‘objective’ professional historiography, it satisfies very high standards of scholarly documentation. Indeed the book contains a wealth of source material that allows the reader to form a highly detailed picture of the events and personalities discussed in the book. As an exemplar of historical writing in a broader sense it can compete with any other historical book.
Moritz Epple (History of Mathematics, Frankfurt University)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783034807111 |
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Publisher: | Springer Basel |
Publication date: | 11/13/2014 |
Edition description: | 2015 |
Pages: | 471 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d) |
Table of Contents
Greetings to the Reader: What is History?.- Why Van der Waerden and Why Me?The Family.- The Joys of Young Bartel.- Van der Waerden at Hamburg.- The Story of The Book.- The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions.- From Göttingen to Groningen.- Transformations of The Book.- The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book.- On to Germany.- The Dawn of the Nazi Era.- The Princeton Offer.- Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher.- One Faculty Meeting at Leipzig.- A Cloud of Suspicion.- Mathematische Annalen.- Germany Treacherously Invades Holland.- Barrau’s Succession at Utrecht.- A Dream of Göttingen.- “Furniture and Scientific Books”.- Breidablik.- Home, Bittersweet Home.- The New World or Old?.- “The Defense”.- Van der Waerden and Van der Corput: Dialog in Letters.- One Heartfelt Letter to a Friend.- A Rebellion in Brouwer’s Amsterdam.- The Het Parool Affair.- Job History 1945–1947.- “America! America! God shed His grace on thee” .- Van der Waerden, Goudsmit and Heisenberg: A Letteral Triangle.- On Active and Passive Opposition in the Third Reich.- Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg.- Professorship at Amsterdam.- Escape to Neutrality.- The Theorem Becomes Classic.- Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove?.- Zurück nach Zürich.- Reunions of Old Friends: Van der Waerden and Heisenberg.- The Drama of Van der Waerden.- The Scholar and the State.- Farewell to the Reader: “I Hope and I Hope”.