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The Mathematics of NIELS HENRIK ABEL Continuation and New Approaches in Mathematics During the 1820s HENRIK KRAGH SØRENSEN PhD dissertation March 2002 Electronic edition, October 2010 History of Science Department The Faculty of Science University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Page 3: The Mathematics of NIELS HENRIK ABE
Page 7 and 8: Contents Contents i List of Tables
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Page 15 and 16: List of Figures 2.1 NIELS HENRIK AB
Page 17: List of Boxes 1 The algebraic reduc
Page 21 and 22: Summary The present PhD dissertatio
Page 23 and 24: Preface to the 2004 edition For thi
Page 25: in connection with the Abel centenn
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Page 30 and 31: the Mittag-Leffler archives in Djur
Page 33 and 34: Chapter 1 Introduction In the after
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Chapter 3 Historical background The
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3.2. ABEL’s position in mathemati
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3.3. The state of mathematics 43 tr
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3.4. ABEL’s legacy 45 As can be s
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Chapter 4 The position and role of
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4.1. Outline of ABEL’s results an
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4.2. Mathematical change as a histo
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Chapter 7 Particular classes of equ
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7.1. Solubility of Abelian equation
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7.2. Elliptic functions 153 Figure
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7.2. Elliptic functions 155 7.2.1 T
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7.3. The concept of irreducibility
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7.4. Enlarging the class of solvabl
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Part III Interlude: ABEL and the
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192 Chapter 9. The nineteenth-centu
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208 Chapter 11. CAUCHY’s new foun
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Chapter 12 ABEL’s reading of CAUC
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12.1. ABEL’s critical attitude 22
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12.3. Convergence 229 12.3 Converge
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12.3. Convergence 231 and {εm} was
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12.4. Continuity 233 it followed th
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12.4. Continuity 235 Actually, if t
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12.4. Continuity 237 DIRICHLET intr
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12.5. ABEL’s “exception” 239
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12.6. A curious reaction: Lehrsatz
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12.7. From power series to absolute
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12.7. From power series to absolute
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12.8. Product theorems of infinite
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12.8. Product theorems of infinite
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12.9. ABEL’s proof of the binomia
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12.10. Aspects of ABEL’s binomial
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Chapter 14 Reception of ABEL’s co
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14.1. Reception of ABEL’s rigoriz
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14.2. Conclusion 281 of basic notio
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Part IV Elliptic functions and the
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Chapter 17 Steps in the process of
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17.1. Infinite representations 323
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17.2. Elliptic functions as ratios
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17.2. Elliptic functions as ratios
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17.3. Characterization of ABEL’s
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Chapter 18 Tools in ABEL’s resear
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18.1. Transformation theory 333 The
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18.3. Conclusion 345 Summary. ABEL
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19.4. The fate of the Paris memoir
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19.6. Conclusion 377 hyperelliptic
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Chapter 20 General approaches to el
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20.2. Other ways of introducing ell
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20.3. Conclusion 383 All these four
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Chapter 21 ABEL’s mathematics and
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21.1. From formulae to concepts 389
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21.2. Concepts and classes enter ma
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21.3. The role of counter examples
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21.4. Conclusion 401 It is beyond t
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404 Appendix A. ABEL’s correspond
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Appendix B ABEL’s manuscripts Man
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1. Précis d’une théorie des fon
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Bibliography Abel (MS:351:A). “M
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Bibliography 413 in: Journal für d
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Bibliography 415 — (1990). “Geo
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Bibliography 417 — (1830). “Mé
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Bibliography 419 — (1768). “Ins
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Bibliography 421 Grattan-Guinness,
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Bibliography 423 Jahnke, H. N. (198
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Bibliography 425 Legendre, A. M. (1
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Bibliography 427 Rosen, M. (1981).
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Bibliography 429 Toti Rigatelli, L.
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432 Index of names Frobenius, Georg
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Index École Normale, 40, 187 Écol
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Index 437 Lagrange interpolation, 3
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