Heritage of European Mathematics

Authors

Hurwitz’s Lectures on the Number Theory of Quaternions

Editors

Gösta Mittag-Leffler and Vito Volterra. 40 Years of Correspondence

Revisiting a hundred-year-old theorem

Uniformization of Riemann Surfaces

Karl Löwner and His Student Lipman Bers – Pre-war Prague Mathematicians

Emil Artin and Beyond – Class Field Theory and L-Functions

Emil Artin and Beyond – Class Field Theory and $L$-Functions

Jacques Tits, Œuvres – Collected Works

Contributions to the History of Number Theory in the 20th Century

Review in LMS Newsletter,  No. 419 November 2012

Corrected 2nd printing, September 2013

The mathematical writings of Évariste Galois

From Cardano’s great art to Lagrange’s reflections: filling a gap in the history of algebra

Nikolai I. Lobachevsky, Pangeometry

Hans Freudenthal, Selecta

Review in Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64 (2010), 303&#8211;304

Review in Historia Math. 38 (2011), 123&#8211;125

Thomas Harriot’s Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the ‘Magisteria Magna’

Andrzej Schinzel, Selecta

> … _il me paraît que si l'on veut faire des progrès dans les mathématiques il faut étudier les maîtres_ … 

> … _it appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters_ …

— Niels Henrik Abel, in his Paris notebook dated 6 August 1826

This series features the selected or collected works of distinguished mathematicians. Biographies of and correspondence between outstanding mathematicians, as well as other texts of historico-mathematical interest are also included.

Advisory Board: Ciro Ciliberto (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Władysław Narkiewicz (Uniwersytet Wrocławski), Samuel J. Patterson (Universität Göttingen), and Rossana Tazzioli (Université de Lille).