Minkowski in Königsberg 1884: A talk in Lindemann’s colloquium
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Additional Information
- Joachim Schwermer
- Affiliation: Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Nordbergstrasse 15, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; and Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Email: Joachim.Schwermer@univie.ac.at
- Received by editor(s): October 2, 2009
- Published electronically: February 2, 2010
- Additional Notes: The author thanks Della Fenster for her insightful comments on a first version of this note.
- © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 355-362
- MSC (2000): Primary 11F75, 22E40; Secondary 11F70, 57R95
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-10-01291-7
- MathSciNet review: 2594631