B・L・ファン・デル・ヴェルデン
Alexander Soifer (2009), The Mathematical Coloring Book, Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-0-387-74640-1. Soifer devotes four chapters and over 100 pages to biographical material about van der Waerden, some of which he had also published earlier in the journal Geombinatorics.
Alexander Soifer (2015) The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden, Springer books ISBN 978-3-0348-0711-1