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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics (1903–1996)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 February 1903
- Died
- 12 January 1996
- Place of birth
- Amsterdam
- Place of death
- Zurich
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- van der Waerden
- Father
- Theo van der Waerden
- Field of work
- algebra, combinatorics, mathematics, history of mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher, historian of mathematics, historian, historian of science
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Native language
- German
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, honorary doctor of the University of Athens, honorary doctor of the Leipzig University, Cothenius Medal, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- academic thesis
- De algebraiese grondslagen der meetkunde van het aantal
- birth name
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
- doctoral advisor
- Hendrik de Vries
- doctoral student
- David van Dantzig, Herbert Seifert, Hans Salié, Helmut Ulm, Yaroslav A. Tagamlitski, Hans Richter, Wouter Peremans, Jan van Deemter, Walter Brödel, Hans Rudolf Fischer, Günther Frei, Herbert Gross
- employer
- Leipzig University, University of Zurich, University of Groningen, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Shell, Johns Hopkins University
- Erdős number
- 3
- member of
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
- notable work
- Moderne Algebra, Van der Waerden's theorem, Van der Waerden test, van der Waerden Permanent Conjecture, Van der Waerden notation, Van der Waerden number, Infeld–Van der Waerden symbols
- relative
- Franz Rellich
- student of
- Otto E. Neugebauer, Emmy Noether
- work location
- Leipzig
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