The Evanston colloquium
Subtitle: 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: by Felix Klein.  Reported by Alexander Ziwet
Contributors: Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928, editor
Publisher: American Mathematical society
Published: 1911
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Mathematics; Curves; Surfaces; Greek letter epsilon (Mathematics); Pi; Geometry, Non-Euclidean; Abelian Functions; German Mathematics; Ideal Numbers; Equations; Functions of complex variables; Congresses and conventions
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: I. Clebsch.; title: II-III. Sophus Lie.; title: IV. On the real shape of algebraic curves and surfaces.; title: V. Theory of functions and geometry.; title: VI. On the mathematical character of space-intuition, and the relation of pure mathematics to the applied sciences.; title: VII. The transcendency of the numbers e and  .; title: VII. Ideal numbers.; title: IX. The solution of higher algebraic equations.; title: X. On some recent advances in hyperelliptic and Abelian functions.; title: XI. The most recent researches in non-Euclidean geometry.; title: XII. The study of mathematics at Göttingen.; title: Appendix.