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: Science Awakening (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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Bartel Leendert van der Waerden": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive