Soifer makes conference presentation

Alex Soifer, professor, Interdepartmental Studies, presented “Van der Werden and Heisenberg: The Story of One Friendship” at the 43^rd Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing held March 5-9 at Florida International University.

Van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician who worked as a professor in Nazi Germany. Heisenberg was a 1932 Nobel Prize laureate for creating quantum mechanics who headed the Nazi atomic bomb and nuclear reactor programs.