Tous nos rayons

Déjà client ? Identifiez-vous

Mot de passe oublié ?

Nouveau client ?

CRÉER VOTRE COMPTE
A History of Abstract Algebra: From Algebraic Equations to Modern Algebra
Ajouter à une liste

Librairie Eyrolles - Paris 5e
Indisponible

A History of Abstract Algebra: From Algebraic Equations to Modern Algebra

A History of Abstract Algebra: From Algebraic Equations to Modern Algebra

Jeremy Gray - Collection Yellow Sale 2023

415 pages, parution le 15/08/2018

Résumé

This textbook provides an accessible account of the history of abstract algebra, tracing a range of topics in modern algebra and number theory back to their modest presence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and exploring the impact of ideas on the development of the subject.

Beginning with Gauss's theory of numbers and Galois's ideas, the book progresses to Dedekind and Kronecker, Jordan and Klein, Steinitz, Hilbert, and Emmy Noether. Approaching mathematical topics from a historical perspective, the author explores quadratic forms, quadratic reciprocity, Fermat's Last Theorem, cyclotomy, quintic equations, Galois theory, commutative rings, abstract fields, ideal theory, invariant theory, and group theory. Readers will learn what Galois accomplished, how difficult the proofs of his theorems were, and how important Camille Jordan and Felix Klein were in the eventual acceptance of Galois's approach to the solution of equations. The book also describes the relationship between Kummer's ideal numbers and Dedekind's ideals, and discusses why Dedekind felt his solution to the divisor problem was better than Kummer's.

Designed for a course in the history of modern algebra, this book is aimed at undergraduate students with an introductory background in algebra but will also appeal to researchers with a general interest in the topic. With exercises at the end of each chapter and appendices providing material difficult to find elsewhere, this book is self-contained and therefore suitable for self-study.

Introduction.- 1 Simple quadratic forms.- 2 Fermat's Last Theorem.- 3 Lagrange's theory of quadratic forms.- 4 Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.- 5 Cyclotomy.- 6 Two of Gauss's proofs of quadratic reciprocity.- 7 Dirichlet's Lectures.- 8 Is the quintic unsolvable?.- 9 The unsolvability of the quintic.- 10 Galois's theory.- 11 After Galois - Introduction.- 12 Revision and first assignment.- 13 Jordan's Traite.- 14 Jordan and Klein.- 15 What is `Galois theory'?.- 16 Algebraic number theory: cyclotomy.- 17 Dedekind's first theory of ideals.- 18 Dedekind's later theory of ideals.- 19 Quadratic forms and ideals.- 20 Kronecker's algebraic number theory.- 21 Revision and second assignment.- 22 Algebra at the end of the 19th century.- 23 The concept of an abstract field.- 24 Ideal theory.- 25 Invariant theory.- 26 Hilbert's Zahlbericht.- 27 The rise of modern algebra - group theory.- 28 Emmy Noether.- 29 From Weber to van der Waerden.- 30 Revision and final assignment.- A Polynomial equations in the 18th Century.- B Gauss and composition of forms.- C Gauss on quadratic reciprocity.- D From Jordan's Traite.- E Klein's Erlanger Programm.- F From Dedekind's 11th supplement.- G Subgroups of S4 and S5.- H Curves.- I Resultants.- Bibliography.- Index. Jeremy Gray is a leading historian of modern mathematics. He has been awarded the Leon Whiteman Prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Neugebauer Prize of the European Mathematical Society for his work, and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Caractéristiques techniques

  PAPIER
Éditeur(s) Springer
Auteur(s) Jeremy Gray
Collection Yellow Sale 2023
Parution 15/08/2018
Nb. de pages 415
EAN13 9783319947723

Avantages Eyrolles.com

Livraison à partir de 0,01 en France métropolitaine
Paiement en ligne SÉCURISÉ
Livraison dans le monde
Retour sous 15 jours
+ d'un million et demi de livres disponibles
satisfait ou remboursé
Satisfait ou remboursé
Paiement sécurisé
modes de paiement
Paiement à l'expédition
partout dans le monde
Livraison partout dans le monde
Service clients sav@commande.eyrolles.com
librairie française
Librairie française depuis 1925
Recevez nos newsletters
Vous serez régulièrement informé(e) de toutes nos actualités.
Inscription