Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

In this Dutch name, the surname is van der Waerden, not Waerden.
In this article, we use Dutch capitalization for the tussenvoegsels in Dutch family names. The first letter in Van der Waerden is capitalized unless it is preceded by a name, initial or title of nobility.
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
van der Waerden in 1980
Born(1903-02-02)2 February 1903
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died12 January 1996(1996-01-12) (aged 92)
Zürich, Switzerland
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
University of Göttingen
Known forVan der Waerden notation
Van der Waerden number
Van der Waerden's theorem
Van der Waerden test
Van der Waerden's conjecture
Van der Waerden symbols
Van der Waerden game
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Leipzig
University of Zurich
University of Groningen
Doctoral advisorHendrik de Vries
Doctoral studentsWei-Liang Chow
David van Dantzig
Jan van Deemter
Günther Frei
Guerino Mazzola
Herbert Seifert

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (Dutch: [ˈbɑrtə(l) ˈleːndərt fɑn dər ˈʋaːrdə(n)]; 2 February 1903 – 12 January 1996) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics.