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From Fermat to Minkowski: Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development

By Gary Cornell , Walter K. Buhler , Winfried Scharlau , Hans Opolka

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1985
ISBN
0387909427, 9780387909424
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8368811 bytes)
Series
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Edition
1st
Pages
184\197
Time added
2013-12-16 00:56:11
Математика;История математики

Description

Tracing the story from its earliest sources, this book celebrates the lives and work of pioneers of modern mathematics: Fermat, Euler, Lagrange, Legendre, Gauss, Fourier, Dirichlet and more. Includes an English translation of Gauss's 1838 letter to Dirichlet.

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