Elliptic Functions According To Eisenstein And Kronecker (ergebnisse Der Mathematik Und Ihrer Grenzgebiete)

"As a contribution to the history of mathematics, this is a model of its kind. While adhering to the basic outlook of Eisenstein and Kronecker, it provides new insight into their work in the light of subsequent developments, right up to the present day. As one would expect from this author, it also contains some pertinent comments looking into the future. It is not however just a chapter in the history of our subject, but a wide-ranging survey of one of the most active branches of mathematics at the present time. The book has its own very individual flavour, reflecting a sort of combined Eisenstein-Kronecker-Weil personality. Based essentially on Eisenstein's approach to elliptic functions via infinite series over lattices in the complex plane, it stretches back to the very beginnings on the one hand and reaches forward to some of the most recent research work on the other. (...) The persistent reader will be richly rewarded." __A. Fröhlich, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1978__ "As a contribution to the history of mathematics, this is a model of its kind. While adhering to the basic outlook of Eisenstein and Kronecker, it provides new insight into their work in the light of subsequent developments, right up to the present day. As one would expect from this author, it also contains some pertinent comments looking into the future. It is not however just a chapter in the history of our subject, but a wide-ranging survey of one of the most active branches of mathematics at the present time. The book has its own very individual flavour, reflecting a sort of combined Eisenstein-Kronecker-Weil personality. Based essentially on Eisenstein's approach to elliptic functions via infinite series over lattices in the complex plane, it stretches back to the very beginnings on the one hand and reaches forward to some of the most recent research work on the other. (...) The persistent reader will be richly rewarded." -- A. Fröhlich, the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1978 Front Matter....Pages i-vii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-5 Trigonometric Functions....Pages 6-13 The Basic Elliptic Functions....Pages 14-21 Basic Relations and Infinite Products....Pages 22-34 Variation I....Pages 35-41 Variation II....Pages 42-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Prelude to Kronecker....Pages 51-68 Kronecker’s Double Series....Pages 69-86 Finale: Allegro con brio....Pages 87-92 Back Matter....Pages 93-95 A contribution to the history of mathematics. While adhering to the basic outlook of Eisenstein and Kronecker, it provides insight into their work in the light of later developments. It is based on Eisenstein's approach to elliptic functions via infinite series over lattices in the complex plane. André Weil. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.