Review 1 of The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators by Alexander Soifer Springer, 2009 $60.00 approx 600 pages, Hardcover Review by William Gasarch gasarch@cs.umd.edu Introduction I rst had the pleasure of meeting Alexander Soifer at one of the Southeastern International Conferences on Combinatorics, Computing, and Graph Theory. If I was as careful a historian as he is, I would know which one. Over lunch he told me about van der Waerden s behavior when he was living as a Dutch Citizen in Nazi Germany. Van der Waerden later claimed that he opposed the ring of Jewish professors. Soifer explained to me that in 1933 the German government passed a law requiring Universities to re all Jewish professors unless they were veterans of WW I (there were other exceptions also). Van der Waerden protested that veterans were being red, in violation of the law. So he was objecting to the law not being carried out properly and not to the law itself. Alex told me that the full story would soon appear in a book he was writing on Coloring Theorems. I couldn t tell if the book would be a
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Review of the mathematical coloring book: mathematics of coloring and the colorful life of its creators by Alexander Soifer
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 25, 2009
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