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. Pub. for H.S. White and A. Ziwet.
Contributors: Ziwet, Alexander, ed.
Publisher: Macmillan and co.
Published: 1894
Place of publication: NewYork; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Mathematics.
Notes: 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: Contents, 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 (epsilon) and (pi).; title: VIII. Ideal numbers.; title: IX. The solution of higher algebraic equations.; title: X. On some recent advances in hyperelliptic andAbelian functions.; title: XI. The most recent researches in non-Euclidean geometry.; title: XII. The study of mathematics at Göttingen.; title: Appendix.