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Collected Papers II

Function Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Miscellaneous

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Authors:
  1. Ernst Eduard Kummer

    1. Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Editors:
  1. André Weil

    1. Princeton, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Collected Works in Mathematics (SCWM)

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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

  • Princeton, USA

    André Weil

  • Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Ernst Eduard Kummer

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

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