The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden

Greetings to the Reader: What is History?.- Why Van der Waerden and Why Me?

The Family.- The Joys of Young Bartel.- Van der Waerden at Hamburg.- The Story of The Book.- The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions.- From Göttingen to Groningen.- Transformations of The Book.- The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book.- On to Germany.- The Dawn of the Nazi Era.- The Princeton Offer.- Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher.- One Faculty Meeting at Leipzig.- A Cloud of Suspicion.- Mathematische Annalen .- Germany Treacherously Invades Holland.- Barrau's Succession at Utrecht.- A Dream of Göttingen.- "Furniture and Scientific Books".- Breidablik .- Home, Bittersweet Home.- The New World or Old?.- "The Defense".- Van der Waerden and Van der Corput: Dialog in Letters.- One Heartfelt Letter to a Friend.- A Rebellion in Brouwer's Amsterdam.- The Het Parool Affair.- Job History 1945-1947.- "America! America! God shed His grace on thee" .- Van der Waerden, Goudsmit and Heisenberg: A Letteral Triangle.- On Active and Passive Opposition in the Third Reich.- Van der Waerden in Defense of Heisenberg.- Professorship at Amsterdam.- Escape to Neutrality.- The Theorem Becomes Classic.- Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove?.- Zurück nach Zürich.- Reunions of Old Friends: Van der Waerden and Heisenberg.- The Drama of Van der Waerden.- The Scholar and the State.- Farewell to the Reader: "I Hope and I Hope".