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Chapter 36 A Graphic Novel About the creation of the proof of van der Waerden's Theorem

Project by: Jinxiao Jin, Listiarini Listiarini, Tianqi Su, and JiaWei Xie.

\(\textbf{Summary:}\) The main goal of this project is to use a graphic novel format to restore the event when van der Waerden, Emil Artin, and Otto Schreier worked together to find the proof of Baudet's conjecture.

Figure 36.0.1. Emil Artin, Otto Schreier, and Bartel van der Waerden in 1926

Our script closely follows van der Waerden's description of the events that happened in 1926 in Artin's office in the Mathematics Department of the University of Hamburg. For more, please see B.L. v an der Waerden, “How the proof of Baudet's conjecture was found.” In Studies in Pure Mathematics, Edited by L . Mirsky, Academic Press, London, 1971, 251-260. Also, see A. Soifer, 2009. The Mathematical Coloring Book. Springer. Pages 110 - 121.

Enjoy!

\(\textbf{The creation of the proof of van der Waerden's theorem - Graphic Novel:}\)

Figure 36.0.2. The creation of the proof of van der Waerden's theorem - A graphic novel by JiaWei Xie, Listarini i, Tianqi Su, and Jinxao Jin.