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The Evanston colloquium lectures on mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 before members of the Congress of Mathematics held in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Title
The Evanston colloquium [electronic resource] : lectures on mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 before members of the Congress of Mathematics held in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. / by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet.
Author
Klein, Felix, 1849-1925.
Publication
New York : American Mathematical Society, 1911 [c1893]

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Additional Authors
  • Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928.
  • Macmillan & Co.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 109 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Uniform Title
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
Subject
  • Clebsch, Alfred, 1833-1872
  • Lie, Sophus, 1842-1899
  • Mathematics
  • Curves
  • Surfaces
  • Greek letter epsilon (Mathematics)
  • Greek letter pi
  • Geometry, Non-Euclidean
  • Functions, Abelian
  • Mathematics, German
  • Numbers, Ideal
  • Equations
  • Functions of complex variables
  • Congresses and conventions
Note
  • The appendix, "The development of mathematics at the German universities, by F. Klein", is a translation of the section "Mathematik" in the work "Die deutschen Universitäten", Berlin, A. Asher & co., 1893.
  • Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Clebsch -- II-III. Sophus Lie -- IV. On the real shape of algebraic curves and surfaces -- V. Theory of functions and geometry -- VI. On the mathematical character of space-intuition, and the relation of pure mathematics to the applied sciences -- VII. The transcendency of the numbers e and -- VII. Ideal numbers -- IX. The solution of higher algebraic equations -- X. On some recent advances in hyperelliptic and Abelian functions -- XI. The most recent researches in non-Euclidean geometry -- XII. The study of mathematics at Göttingen -- Appendix.
OCLC
  • 609297569
  • NCCO2016402
Author
Klein, Felix, 1849-1925.
Title
The Evanston colloquium [electronic resource] : lectures on mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 before members of the Congress of Mathematics held in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. / by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet.
Imprint
New York : American Mathematical Society, 1911 [c1893] (Boston, Mass. : J.S. Cushing & Co.)
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928.
Macmillan & Co.
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