Mathematics of the 19th Century: Geometry, Analytic Function Theory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034891741 ISBN 13: 9783034891745

Verlag: Birkhäuser, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geometry.- 1. Analytic and Differential Geometry.- Analytic Geometry.- The Differential Geometry of Monge's Students.- Gauss' Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas.- Minding and the Formulation of the Problems of Intrinsic Geometry.- The French School of Differential Geometry.- Differential Geometry at Midcentury.- Differential Geometry in Russia.- The Theory of Linear Congruences.- 2. Projective Geometry.- The Rise of Projective Geometry.- Poncelet's Traité des propriétés projectives des figures.- The Analytic Projective Geometry of Möbius and Plücker.- The Synthetic Projective Geometry of Steiner and Chasles.- Staudt and the Foundation of Projective Geometry.- Cayley's Projective Geometry.- 3. Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Algebra.- Algebraic Curves.- Algebraic Surfaces.- Geometric Computations Connected with Algebraic Geometry.- Grassmann's Lineale Ausdehnungslehre.- Hamilton's Vectors.- 4. Non-Euclidean Geometry.- Nikola? Ivanovich Lobachevski? and the Discovery of Non-Euclidean Geometry.- Gauss' Research in Non-Euclidean Geometry.- János Bólyai.- Hyperbolic Geometry.- J. Bóyai's "Absolute Geometry".- The Consistency of Hyperbolic Geometry.- Propagation of the Ideas of Hyperbolic Geometry.- Beltrami's Interpretation.- Cayley's Interpretation.- Klein's Interpretation.- Elliptic Geometry.- 5. Multi-Dimensional Geometry.- Jacobi's Formulas for Multi-dimensional Geometry.- Cayley's Analytic Geometry of n Dimensions.- Grassmann's Multi-dimensional Geometry.- Plücker's Neue. Geometrie des Raumes.- Schläfli's Theorie der vielfachen Kontinuilät.- The Multi-dimensional Geometry of Klein and Jordan.- Riemannian Geometry.- Riemann's Idea of Complex Parameters of Euclidean Motions.- Riemann's Ideas on Physical Space.- The Work of Christoffel, Lipschitz. and Suvorov on Riemannian Geometry.- The Multi-dimensional Theory of Curves.- Multi-dimensional Surface Theory.- Multi-dimensional Projective Geometry.- The Terminology of Multi-dimensional Geometry.- 6. Topology.- Gauss' Topology.- Generalizations of Euler's Theorem on Polyhedra in the Early Nineteenth Century.- Listing's Vorstudien zur Topologie.- Möbius' "Theorie der elementaren Verwandschaft".- The Topology of Surfaces in Riemann's "Theorie der Abel'schen Funktionen".- The Multi-dimensional Topology of Riemann and Betti.- Jordan's Topological Theorems.- The "Klein Bottle".- 7. Geometric Transformations.- Geometrie Transformations in the Work of Möbius.- Helmholtz' Paper "Über die Thatsachen, die der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen".- Klein's "Erlanger Programm".- Transference Principles.- Cremona Transformations.- Conclusion.- 2. Analytic Function.- Results Achieved in Analytic Function Theory in the Eighteenth Century.- Development of the Concept of a Complex Number.- Complex Integration.- The Cauchy Integral Theorem. Residues.- Elliptic Functions in the Work of Gauss.- Hypergeometric Functions.- The First Approach to Modular Functions.- Power Series. The Method of Majorants.- Elliptic Functions in the Work of Abel.- C.G.J. Jacobi. Fundamenta nova functionum ellipticarum.- The Jacobi Theta Functions.- Elliptic Functions in the Work of Eisenstein and Liouville. The First Textbooks.- Abelian Integrals. Abel's Theorem.- Quadruply Periodic Functions.- Summary of the Development of Analytic Function Theory over the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.- V. Puiseux. Algebraic Functions.- Bernhard Riemann.- Riemann's Doctoral Dissertation. The Dirichlet Principle.- Conformal Mappings.- Karl Weierstrass.- Analytic Function Theory in Russia. Yu.V. Sokhotski? and the Sokhotski?-Casorati-Weierstrass Theorem.- Entire and Meromorphic Functions. Picard's Theorem.- Abelian Functions.- Abelian Functions (Continuation).- Automorphic Functions. Uniformization.- Sequences and Series of Analytic Functions.- Conclusion.- Literature.- (F. A. Medvedev).- General Works.- Collected Works and Other Original Sources.- Auxiliary Literature to Chapter 1

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Birkhäuser
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3034891741
• ISBN 13: 9783034891745
• Einband: Paperback
• Sprache: Englisch
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