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Interview with Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
The life and experiences of van der Waerden spanned twentieth-century mathematics
in Europe, as revealed in this interview with him in 1993.
Van der Waerden's Modern Algebra
Saunders Mac Lane
The major changes in algebra wrought over 70 years ago were brought to the
mathematical world by van der Waerden's seminal texts.
From Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics to
Unified Quantum Mechanics
B. L. van der Waerden
Early discussions of quantum mechanics are revealed and discussed in this
reprinted article.
Chinese Acrobats, an Old-Time Brewery, and the "Much
Needed Gap": the Life of Mathematical Reviews
Allyn Jackson
Are Women Getting All the Jobs?
Marie A. Vitulli and Mary E. Flahive
H. S. M. Coxeter Celebrates 90th Birthday
George F. D. Duff
1996 Reports of the AMS Policy Committees