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

Contents: Clebsch -- Sophus Lie -- On the real shape of algebraic curves and surfaces -- Theory of functions and geometry -- On the mathematical character of space-intuition, and the relation of pure mathematics to the applied sciences -- The transcendency of the numbers e and π [pi] -- Ideal numbers -- The solution of higher algebraic equations -- On some recent advances in hyperelliptic and Abelian functions -- The most recent researches in non-Euclidean geometry -- The study of mathematics at Göttingen -- The development of mathematics at the German universities.

Author: Klein, Felix, 1849-1925

Editor: Ziwet, Alexander, 1853-1928

EBook No.: 36154

Published: May 18, 2011

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Language: English

Subject: Mathematics

LoCC: Science: Mathematics

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.