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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"....this study is just as clearly a stunning achievement. Few historians of mathematics have made a serious attempt to cross the bridge joining the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and those who have made the journey have tended to avert their eyes from the mainstream traffic....the single greatest merit of Hawkins' book is that the author tries to place the reader in the middle of the action, offering a close up look at how mathematics gets made...Hawkins' account of this strange but wonderful saga resurrects a heroic chapter in the history of mathematics. For anyone with a serious interest in the rich background developments that led to modern Lie theory, this book should be browsed, read, savored, and read again."
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups
Book Subtitle: An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869–1926
Authors: Thomas Hawkins
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1202-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98963-1Published: 19 July 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7042-3Published: 27 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1202-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 566
Topics: Group Theory and Generalizations