Everything about Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden totally explained
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (
February 2 1903,
Amsterdam,
Netherlands –
January 12 1996,
Zürich,
Switzerland) was a
Dutch mathematician.
Van der Waerden learned advanced mathematics at the
University of Amsterdam and the
University of Göttingen, from 1919 until 1926.
He was much influenced by
Emmy Noether at Göttingen. Amsterdam awarded him a Ph.D. for a thesis on
algebraic geometry, supervised by
Hendrik de Vries. Göttingen awarded him the
habilitation in 1928.
In his 27th year, Van der Waerden published his
Algebra, an influential two-volume treatise on
abstract algebra, still cited, and perhaps the first treatise to treat the subject as a comprehensive whole. This work systematized an ample body of research by
Emmy Noether,
David Hilbert,
Richard Dedekind, and
Emil Artin. In the following year, 1931, he was appointed professor at the
University of Leipzig.
The
Third Reich made life difficult for Van der Waerden as a foreigner teaching in Germany, but he refused to give up his Dutch nationality. He filled the chair in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, 1948–1951, then moved to the
University of Zurich, where he spent the rest of his career, supervising more than 40 Ph.D. students.
Van der Waerden is mainly remembered for his work on
abstract algebra. He also wrote on algebraic geometry, topology, number theory, geometry, combinatorics, analysis, probability and statistics, and quantum mechanics (he and Heisenberg had been colleagues at Leipzig). In his later years, he turned to the
history of mathematics and
science. His historical writings include
Ontwakende wetenschap (1950), which was translated into English as
Science Awakening (1954),
Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations (1983), and
A History of Algebra (1985).
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