RePoSS #11: The Mathematics of Niels Henrik Abel: Continuation ...

List of Tables
2.1 Time of publications of CRELLE’s Journal 1826–29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.2 List of most productive authors in CRELLE’s Journal 1826–29 . . . . . . . . . 33
2.3 Summary of NIELS HENRIK ABEL’s biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.1 RUFFINI’s classification of permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.2 The N m
circles formed by applying (As
At ) to A1, . . . , AN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
6.1 The order and degree of some expressions in CARDANO’s solution to the
general cubic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
10.1 LAGRANGE’s monographs on his algebraic analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
11.1 CAUCHY’s textbooks on the calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
15.1 LEGENDRE’s publications on elliptic transcendentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
15.2 LEGENDRE’s classification of elliptic integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
15.3 ABEL’s early unpublished works on elliptic integrals and related topics . . . 298
18.1 Important dates in the ABEL-JACOBI-rivalry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
A.1 Correspondence sorted by sender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
A.1 Correspondence sorted by sender (cont.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
A.1 Correspondence sorted by sender (cont.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
B.1 Abel manuscript collections in Oslo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
B.2 Abel manuscripts in Oslo, MS:592 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
B.3 Abel manuscripts in Oslo, MS:434 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
B.4 Abel notebooks in Oslo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
B.5 Abel manuscripts in the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Djursholm . . . . . . . . . . 410
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