Bartel Leendert van der Waerden was a mathematician at the universities of Groningen, Leipzig, and Zürich.
He got his PhD degree in 1926 at the University of Amsterdam, advised by Hendrick de Vries.
Moderne Algebra. Teil I, Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 33, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1930, ISBN 978-3-540-56799-8
Moderne Algebra. Teil II, Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 34, Springer-Verlag, 1931, ISBN 978-3-540-56801-8
Based on lectures by Emil Artin and Emmy Noether, it was the first textbook using the modern approach to algebra.
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