| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Series |
History of Mathematics ; v. 13 |
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History of mathematics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Contents; Photograph Credits; Preface to the Swedish edition; Preface to the American edition; The eighteenth century; The time 1800-1850; A new time in Uppsala and Lund 1860-1890; Algebraic geometry in Lund before 1900; Bäcklund; Uppsala 1860-1900; Gösta Mittag-Leffler-A biography; Mittag-Leffler's and Sonya Kovalevski's mathematical papers; Astronomy and optics; Stockholm University 1880-1920 I; Stockholm University 1880-1920 II; Uppsala 1900-1930; Lund 1900-1925; Stockholm 1925-1950; Lund 1925-1950; Uppsala 1930-1950; Mathematicians in Sweden; Postscript; Index |
| Summary |
This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and 1950-from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A. Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics came to Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results. The book contains a biography of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, the father of Swedish mathematics, who introduced the Weierstrassian theory of analytic functions and dominated a golden age from 1880 to 1910. Important results are analyzed and re-proved in modern notation, with explanations of their relations to mathematics at the time. The book treats Bäcklu |
| Notes |
Back Cover |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Sweden -- History
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Mathematics
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Sweden
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781470438814 |
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147043881X |
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