From Fermat to Minkowski
Douban
ISBN: 9780387909424
author:
Winfried Scharlau
/
Hans Opolka
publishing house:
Springer
publication date: 1985
series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
price: USD 59.95
number of pages: 196
Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
Winfried Scharlau / Hans Opolka
overview
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.