Exposition by Emil Artin.

Emil Artin was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He had the rare distinction of having solved two of the famous problems posed by David Hilbert in 1900. He showed that every positive definite rational function of several variables was a sum of squares. He also discovered and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosen, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2006.
Series:History of mathematics.
Subjects:
Algebraic fields.
Galois theory.
Gamma functions.
Algebraic stacks.
Corps algébriques.
Théorie de Galois.
Fonctions gamma.
Algebraic stacks
Algebraic fields
Galois theory
Gamma functions
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title page; Contents; Photos; Credits and acknowledgments; Introduction; Books by Emil Artin; The Gamma Function; Galois Theory; Theory of Algebraic Numbers; Papers by Emil Artin; Axiomatic characterization of fields by the product formula for valuations; A note on axiomatic characterization of fields; A characterization of the field of real algebraic numbers; The algebraic construction of real fields; A characterization of real closed fields; The theory of braids; Theory of braids; On the theory of complex functions; A proof of the Krein-Milman theorem.

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