Oeuvres Compl鑼es de Niels Henrik Abel: Nouvelle ﾉdition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108050579)

Niels Henrik Abel (1802-29) was one of the most prominent mathematicians in the first half of the nineteenth century. His pioneering work in diverse areas such as algebra, analysis, geometry and mechanics has made the adjective 'abelian' a commonplace in mathematical writing. These collected works, first published in two volumes in 1881 after careful preparation by the mathematicians Ludwig Sylow (1832-1918) and Sophus Lie (1842-99), contain some of the pillars of mathematical history. Volume 1 includes perhaps the most famous of Abel's results, namely his proof of the 'impossibility theorem', which states that the general fifth-degree polynomial is unsolvable by algebraic means. Also included in this volume is Abel's 'Paris memoir', which contains his many fundamental results on transcendental functions - in particular on elliptic integrals, elliptic functions, and what are known today as abelian integrals.

Author: Niels Henrik Abel
ISBN-10: 1108050573
ISBN-13: 9781108050579
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2012
Pages: 638
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.28d