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This chapter conveys an intriguing story of the 1933 Princeton University job offer to Van der Waerden and his views of the young Nazi state.
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- 1.
Archive of the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University.
- 2.
Werner Heisenberg, October 6, 1930 letter to his mother; quoted from [Cas], pp. 208 and 435.
- 3.
Handwritten letter in German; Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 22.
- 4.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 23.
- 5.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, pp. 24–25.
- 6.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 26.
- 7.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 27.
- 8.
Roughly equivalent to an associate professor, but without a guaranteed salary.
- 9.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, pp. 28 and 30.
- 10.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 29.
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Handwritten letter in German; Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 32.
- 12.
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division; copy sent to me without identification of its location within this vast archive—possibly from the Veblen Papers.
- 13.
A typed hand-signed 3-page letter in German. Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC); Collection IEB, Series 1, Sub-series 3, Box 61, Folder 1027.
- 14.
Ibid.
- 15.
Handwritten letter in German, 1933, undated, written in May or June; New York University, Courant’s Papers.
- 16.
Ibid.
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
Rockefeller Archive Center, Tisdale Log 7 (1933), p. 27.
- 19.
Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 33.
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Soifer, A. (2015). The Princeton Job Offer. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_13
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