Download or read book Contributions to the History of Number Theory in the 20th Century written by Peter Roquette and published by Amer Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century was a time of great upheaval and great progress in mathematics. In order to get the overall picture of trends, developments, and results, it is illuminating to examine their manifestations locally, in the personal lives and work of mathematicians who were active during this time. The university archives of Gottingen harbor a wealth of papers, letters, and manuscripts from several generations of mathematicians--documents which tell the story of the historic developments from a local point of view. This book offers a number of essays based on documents from Gottingen and elsewhere--essays which have not yet been included in the author's collected works. These essays, independent from each other, are meant as contributions to the imposing mosaic of the history of number theory. They are written for mathematicians, but there are no special background requirements. The essays discuss the works of Abraham Adrian Albert, Cahit Arf, Emil Artin, Richard Brauer, Otto Grun, Helmut Hasse, Klaus Hoechsmann, Robert Langlands, Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt, Emmy Noether, Abraham Robinson, Ernst Steinitz, Hermann Weyl, and others.
Download or read book Number Theory written by André Weil and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a historical overview of number theory. It examines texts that span some thirty-six centuries of arithmetical work, from an Old Babylonian tablet to Legendre’s Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres, written in 1798. Coverage employs a historical approach in the analysis of problems and evolving methods of number theory and their significance within mathematics. The book also takes the reader into the workshops of four major authors of modern number theory: Fermat, Euler, Lagrange and Legendre and presents a detailed and critical examination of their work.
Download or read book Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century written by Władysław Narkiewicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number theory. After the proof of the Prime Number Theorem in 1896, a quick development of analytical tools led to the invention of various new methods, like Brun's sieve method and the circle method of Hardy, Littlewood and Ramanujan; developments in topics such as prime and additive number theory, and the solution of Fermat’s problem. Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century: From PNT to FLT offers a short survey of 20th century developments in classical number theory, documenting between the proof of the Prime Number Theorem and the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The focus lays upon the part of number theory that deals with properties of integers and rational numbers. Chapters are divided into five time periods, which are then further divided into subject areas. With the introduction of each new topic, developments are followed through to the present day. This book will appeal to graduate researchers and student in number theory, however the presentation of main results without technicalities will make this accessible to anyone with an interest in the area.
Download or read book Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century written by Wladyslaw Narkiewicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-10 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number theory. After the proof of the Prime Number Theorem in 1896, a quick development of analytical tools led to the invention of various new methods, like Brun's sieve method and the circle method of Hardy, Littlewood and Ramanujan; developments in topics such as prime and additive number theory, and the solution of Fermat’s problem. Rational Number Theory in the 20th Century: From PNT to FLT offers a short survey of 20th century developments in classical number theory, documenting between the proof of the Prime Number Theorem and the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The focus lays upon the part of number theory that deals with properties of integers and rational numbers. Chapters are divided into five time periods, which are then further divided into subject areas. With the introduction of each new topic, developments are followed through to the present day. This book will appeal to graduate researchers and student in number theory, however the presentation of main results without technicalities will make this accessible to anyone with an interest in the area.
Download or read book History of the Theory of Numbers written by Leonard Eugene Dickson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1st volume in the series History of the Theory of Numbers presents the material related to the subjects of divisibility and primality. This series is the work of a distinguished mathematician who taught at the University of Chicago for 4 decades and is celebrated for his many contributions to number theory and group theory. 1919 edition.
Download or read book Number Theory and Its History written by Oystein Ore and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unusually clear, accessible introduction covers counting, properties of numbers, prime numbers, Aliquot parts, Diophantine problems, congruences, much more. Bibliography.
Download or read book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae written by Carl Friedrich Gauss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Friedrich Gauss’s textbook, Disquisitiones arithmeticae, published in 1801 (Latin), remains to this day a true masterpiece of mathematical examination. .
Download or read book History Of The Theory Of Numbers I written by Leonard Eugene Dickson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work in the field of mathematics, History of the Theory of Numbers - I traces the development of number theory from ancient civilizations to the early 20th century. Written by mathematician Leonard Eugene Dickson, this book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of one of the most fundamental branches of mathematics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Lectures on Number Theory written by Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures on Number Theory is the first of its kind on the subject matter. It covers most of the topics that are standard in a modern first course on number theory, but also includes Dirichlet's famous results on class numbers and primes in arithmetic progressions.
Download or read book History Of The Theory Of Numbers I written by Leonard Eugene Dickson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work in the field of mathematics, History of the Theory of Numbers - I traces the development of number theory from ancient civilizations to the early 20th century. Written by mathematician Leonard Eugene Dickson, this book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of one of the most fundamental branches of mathematics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Story of Algebraic Numbers in the First Half of the 20th Century written by Władysław Narkiewicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is aimed at people working in number theory or at least interested in this part of mathematics. It presents the development of the theory of algebraic numbers up to the year 1950 and contains a rather complete bibliography of that period. The reader will get information about results obtained before 1950. It is hoped that this may be helpful in preventing rediscoveries of old results, and might also inspire the reader to look at the work done earlier, which may hide some ideas which could be applied in contemporary research.
Download or read book Number Theory written by John J. Watkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory textbook with a unique historical approach to teaching number theory The natural numbers have been studied for thousands of years, yet most undergraduate textbooks present number theory as a long list of theorems with little mention of how these results were discovered or why they are important. This book emphasizes the historical development of number theory, describing methods, theorems, and proofs in the contexts in which they originated, and providing an accessible introduction to one of the most fascinating subjects in mathematics. Written in an informal style by an award-winning teacher, Number Theory covers prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and a host of other essential topics in number theory, while also telling the stories of the great mathematicians behind these developments, including Euclid, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Sophie Germain. This one-of-a-kind introductory textbook features an extensive set of problems that enable students to actively reinforce and extend their understanding of the material, as well as fully worked solutions for many of these problems. It also includes helpful hints for when students are unsure of how to get started on a given problem. Uses a unique historical approach to teaching number theory Features numerous problems, helpful hints, and fully worked solutions Discusses fun topics like Pythagorean tuning in music, Sudoku puzzles, and arithmetic progressions of primes Includes an introduction to Sage, an easy-to-learn yet powerful open-source mathematics software package Ideal for undergraduate mathematics majors as well as non-math majors Digital solutions manual (available only to professors)
Download or read book History of the Theory of Numbers Volume II written by Leonard Eugene Dickson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume series History of the Theory of Numbers is the work of the distinguished mathematician Leonard Eugene Dickson, who taught at the University of Chicago for four decades and is celebrated for his many contributions to number theory and group theory. This second volume in the series, which is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, is devoted to the subject of diophantine analysis. It can be read independently of the preceding volume, which explores divisibility and primality, and volume III, which examines quadratic and higher forms. Featured topics include polygonal, pyramidal, and figurate numbers; linear diophantine equations and congruences; partitions; rational right triangles; triangles, quadrilaterals, and tetrahedra; the sums of two, three, four, and n squares; the number of solutions of quadratic congruences in n unknowns; Liouville's series of eighteen articles; the Pell equation; squares in arithmetical or geometrical progression; equations of degrees three, four, and n; sets of integers with equal sums of like powers; Waring's problem and related results; Fermat's last theorem; and many other related subjects. Indexes of authors cited and subjects appear at the end of the book.
Download or read book Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers written by Georg Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The St Petersburg School of Number Theory written by Boris Nikolaevich Delone and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book acquaints the reader with the most important works of these six eminent members of the St. Petersburg school. A short biography is given for each of them, followed by an exposition of some of his most significant contributions. Each contribution is presented as a summary of the author's original work and is followed by commentary. Certain works receive relatively complete expositions, while others are dealt with more briefly." "With a Foreword written for the English edition, this volume will appeal to a broad mathematical audience, including mathematical historians and mathematicians working in number theory."--Jacket.
Download or read book Research Schools on Number Theory in India written by Purabi Mukherji and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to describe the gradual development of the major schools of research on number theory in South India, Punjab, Mumbai, Bengal, and Bihar—including the establishment of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, a landmark event in the history of research of number theory in India. Research on number theory in India during modern times started with the advent of the iconic genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, inspiring mathematicians around the world. This book discusses the national and international impact of the research made by Indian number theorists. It also includes a carefully compiled, comprehensive bibliography of major 20th century Indian number theorists making this book important from the standpoint of historic documentation and a valuable resource for researchers of the field for their literature survey. This book also briefly discusses the importance of number theory in the modern world of mathematics, including applications of the results developed by indigenous number theorists in practical fields. Since the book is written from the viewpoint of the history of science, technical jargon and mathematical expressions have been avoided as much as possible.
Download or read book A Brief History of Numbers written by Leo Corry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story behind the idea of number, from the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the 20th century, through Greek, Islamic & European mathematics.
