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

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.

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electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

by Felix Klein ; reported by Alexander Ziwet

Instantiates

• 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.

Publication

• New York, American Mathematical Society, 1911 c1893

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

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NCCO2016402

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1 online resource (xi, 109 p.)

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online

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ill

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.b42102467

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remote

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(OCoLC)609297569