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Bartel van der Waerden

Dutch mathematician

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contribution to algebra

  • algebraic equation
    In modern algebra

    …1930 by the Dutch mathematician Bartel van der Waerden, and the subject has had a deep effect on almost every branch of mathematics.

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  • mathematicians of the Greco-Roman world
    In algebra: Structural algebra

    …Algebra, by the Dutch mathematician Bartel van der Waerden, who since 1924 had attended lectures in Germany by Emmy Noether at Göttingen and by Emil Artin at Hamburg. Van der Waerden’s new image of the discipline inverted the conceptual hierarchy of classical algebra. Groups, fields, rings, and other related concepts…

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