Fundamenta Nova Theoriae Functionum Ellipticarum (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) - Softcover

Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob

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ISBN 10: 1108052002 ISBN 13: 9781108052009

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–51) was one of the nineteenth century's greatest mathematicians. This important and pioneering work in Latin on the theory of elliptic functions was first published in 1829. It remains of relevance in the history of mathematics.

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–51) was one of the nineteenth century's greatest mathematicians, as attested by the diversity of mathematical objects named after him. His early work on number theory had already attracted the attention of Carl Friedrich Gauss, but his reputation was made by his work on elliptic functions. Elliptic integrals had been studied for a long time, but in 1827 Jacobi and Niels Henrik Abel realised independently that the correct way to view them was by means of their inverse functions - what we now call the elliptic functions. The next few years witnessed a flowering of the subject as the two mathematicians pushed ahead. Adrien-Marie Legendre, an expert on the old theory, wrote: 'I congratulate myself that I have lived long enough to witness these magnanimous conflicts between two equally strong young athletes'. This Latin work, first published in 1829, is Jacobi's pioneering account of the new theory.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1108052002
• ISBN 13: 9781108052009
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204