Exposition by Emil Artin A Selection |
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Series title: | History of Mathematics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8218-4172-3 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
Publisher: | American Mathematical Society
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $98.00 |
Book Description:
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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. This book gathers a selection of his writings.
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. This book gathers a selection of his writings.