The Resource 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., by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet, (electronic resource)

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., by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet, (electronic resource)

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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
Title remainder
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.
Statement of responsibility
by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Member of
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
MIGCL
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1849-1925
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Klein, Felix
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • charts
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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1853-1928
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  • Ziwet, Alexander
  • Macmillan & Co
Series statement
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
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  • Clebsch, Alfred
  • Lie, Sophus
  • 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
Label
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., by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet, (electronic resource)
Instantiates
Publication
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
Control code
NCCO2016402
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 109 p.)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Other physical details
ill
Reformatting quality
not applicable
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)609297569
Label
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., by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet, (electronic resource)
Publication
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
Control code
NCCO2016402
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 109 p.)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Other physical details
ill
Reformatting quality
not applicable
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)609297569

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