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Keywords
- History of Mathematics
- Algebraic Geometry
- Trigonometric Series
- Special Functions
- Kummer Surfaces
- Aerodynamics
- Ballistics
About this book
Volume II of Ernst Kummer's Collected Papers can be divided into four different parts. The first part covers his work on the hypergeometric function, and on repeated integrals of rational functions. In the second part (Algebraic Geometry), we see how the discovery of Kummer surfaces seems to have been an outgrowth of the authors interest in optical properties of biaxial crystals, and in the "cyclides" of Dupin. The relation between Kummer surfaces and quotients of abelian surfaces was discovered only much later. In this section, one also finds a number of papers describing actual plaster models of particular Kummer surfaces with symmetries. The third part is devoted to his work on aerodynamics and ballistics. Finally, the fourth part (Speeches and Reviews) spans a broad range of topics, including a long retrospective on the life and work of Dirichlet.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collected Papers II
Book Subtitle: Function Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Miscellaneous
Authors: Ernst Eduard Kummer
Editors: André Weil
Series Title: Springer Collected Works in Mathematics
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-63345-8Published: 21 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2194-9875
Series E-ISSN: 2194-9883
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 877