Elliptic functions according to Eisenstein and Kronecker
By: André Weil.
Series: Classics in mathematics,
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Elliptic functions
Description: "As a contribution to the history of mathematics, this is a model of its kind. While adhering to the basic outlook of Eisenstein and Kronecker, it provides new insight into their work in the light of subsequent developments, right up to the present day. As one would expect from this author, it also contains some pertinent comments looking into the future. It is not however just a chapter in the history of our subject, but a wide-ranging survey of one of the most active branches of mathematics at the present time. The book has its own very individual flavour, reflecting a sort of combined Eisenstein-Kronecker-Weil personality. Based essentially on Eisenstein's approach to elliptic functions via infinite series over lattices in the complex plane, it stretches back to the very beginnings on the one hand and reaches forward to some of the most recent research work on the other. (...) The persistent reader will be richly rewarded." A. Fröhlich, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1978
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1976, in series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete ; 88.