The St. Petersburg school of number theory
The Russian book, ""The St Petersburg School of Number Theory"", is about the life and work of prominent members of this school, such as Chebyshev, Korkin, Zolotarev, Markov, Voronoi, and Vinogradov. This English translation acquaints the reader with the most important works of these six eminent members of the St Petersburg school.
eBook, English, ©2005
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, ©2005
History of mathematics, v. 26
History
1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations
9781470438944, 9780821834572, 1470438941, 0821834576
0899-2428
989866139
Pafnutii L'vovich Chebyshev (1821-1894): Pafnutii L'vovich Chebyshev Chebyshev's articles on the prime numbers Aleksandr Nikolaevich Korkin (1837-1908): Aleksandr Nikolaevich Korkin The articles of Korkin and Zolotarev on the minima of positive quadratic forms Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847-1878): Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev Zolotarev's memoirs on the theory of ideal numbers Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856-1922): Andrei Andreevich Markov On binary quadratic forms of positive determinant Georgii Fedoseevich Voronoi (1868-1908): Georgii Fedoseevich Voronoi Voronoi's dissertations on algebraic numbers of the third degree Voronoi's memoir of 1903: "On a problem from the theory of asymptotic functions" Voronoi's memoirs on quadratic forms Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (1891-1983): Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov Works of Vinogradov from the first period of his mathematical activity Waring's problem The Goldbach problem Estimation of Weyl sums and the problem of the fractional parts of a polynomial Bibliography.