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History of the Theory of Numbers

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

Author
  
Leonard Eugene Dickson

Editor
  
Leonard Eugene Dickson

Publication date
  
1919

Originally published
  
1919

Country
  
United States of America

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Pages
  
Vol I: 486, Vol II: 803, Vol III: 313

ISBN
  
978-0-486-44232-7 (vol.1) ISBN 978-0-486-44233-4(vol.2) ISBN 978-0-486-44234-1(vol.3)

Followed by
  
History of the Theory of Numbers, Volume II: Diophantine Analysis

Publisher
  
Carnegie Institution for Science

Similar
  
Leonard Eugene Dickson books, Number theory books

History of the Theory of Numbers is a three-volume work by L. E. Dickson summarizing work in number theory up to about 1920. The style is unusual in that Dickson mostly just lists results by various authors, with little further discussion. The central topic of quadratic reciprocity and higher reciprocity laws is barely mentioned; this was apparently going to be the topic of a fourth volume that was never written (Fenster 1999).

Volumes

  • Volume 1 - Divisibility and Primality - 486 pages
  • Volume 2 - Diophantine Analysis - 803 pages
  • Volume 3 - Quadratic and Higher Forms - 313 pages
  • References

    History of the Theory of Numbers Wikipedia