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The Evanston colloquium: lectures on mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 before members of the Congress of Mathematics held in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Title: The Evanston colloquium: lectures on mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 before members of the Congress of Mathematics held in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., by Felix Klein. Reported by Alexander Ziwet.
Author: Klein, Felix, 1849-1925.
Publication: New York, American Mathematical society, 1911.

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Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928.

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ix, 109 p. diagr.; 23 cm.

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The appendix, "The development of mathematics at the German universities, by F. Klein", is a translation of the section "Mathematik" in the work "Die deutschen Universitäten", Berlin, A. Asher & co., 1893.

Contents

I. Clebsch.--II-III. Sophus Lie.--IV. On the real shape of algebraic curves and surfaces.--V. Theory of functions and geometry.--VI. On the mathematical character of space-intuition, and the relation of pure mathematics to the applied sciences.--VII. The transcendency of the numbers e and .--VII. Ideal numbers.--IX. The solution of higher algebraic equations.--X. On some recent advances in hyperelliptic and Abelian functions.--XI. The most recent researches in non-Euclidean geometry.--XII. The study of mathematics at Göttingen.--Appendix.

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OEI (American Mathematical Society, New York.--Colloquium, Evanston, 1893. Evanston colloquium)

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3165367

Author

Klein, Felix, 1849-1925.

Title

The Evanston colloquium: lectures on mathematics delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 before members of the Congress of Mathematics held in connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., by Felix Klein. Reported by Alexander Ziwet.

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New York, American Mathematical society, 1911.

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Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928.

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OEI (American Mathematical Society, New York.--Colloquium, Evanston, 1893. Evanston colloquium)

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