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Bernhard Riemann

    September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866

    Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician whose pioneering work in analysis, number theory, and differential geometry laid the groundwork for later discoveries, including general relativity. His innovative approaches combined geometry with analysis, opening up new research avenues that became central to modern mathematical physics and topology. Riemann's insights into the Riemann integral and the zeta function profoundly impacted modern analytic number theory. Despite his timidity and health struggles, Riemann left an indelible mark on the mathematical world, even as much of his unpublished work may have been lost.

    Schwere, Elektricität und Magnetismus
    Collected Works of Bernhard Riemann
    Bernhard Riemann'S Gesammelte Mathematische Werke Und Wissenschaftlicher Nachlass. Hrsg. Unter Mitwirkung Von R. Dedekind, Von H. Weber.
    Gesammelte mathematische Werke, wissenschaftlicher Nachlass und Nachträge
    The collected works of Bernhard Riemann
    On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry
    • 2017

      The collected works of Bernhard Riemann

      • 704 pages
      • 25 hours of reading

      This unabridged text of the complete works of Bernhard Riemann enables German-language readers to examine the great mathematician's revolutionary concepts exactly as he set them down. The collection presents both the 1892 edition of the works, edited by R. Dedekind and H. Weber, and the 1902 supplement, edited by M. Noether and W. Wirtinger. Contents include 31 monographs, three complete lecture courses, and 15 miscellaneous papers. The selections feature Riemann's epoch-making papers on Abelian functions, representation of a function by trigonometrical series, non-Euclidean geometry, the study of space, conformal mapping, number theory, topology, and other mathematical topics.As Dirk Jan Struik noted in his Concise History of Mathematics, "With Bernhard Riemann, Dirichlet's successor at Goettingen, we reach the man who more than any other influenced the course of modern mathematics." Indeed, many of these papers had a profound impact on the work of Einstein, de Sitter, Minkowski, Heisenberg, Dirac, and other outstanding mathematicians and physicists. This edition features an English-language introduction by Professor Hans Lewy of Stanford University.

      The collected works of Bernhard Riemann
    • 2016

      This book presents William Clifford’s English translation of Bernhard Riemann’s classic text together with detailed mathematical, historical and philosophical commentary. The basic concepts and ideas, as well as their mathematical background, are provided, putting Riemann’s reasoning into the more general and systematic perspective achieved by later mathematicians and physicists (including Helmholtz, Ricci, Weyl, and Einstein) on the basis of his seminal ideas. Following a historical introduction that positions Riemann’s work in the context of his times, the history of the concept of space in philosophy, physics and mathematics is systematically presented. A subsequent chapter on the reception and influence of the text accompanies the reader from Riemann’s times to contemporary research. Not only mathematicians and historians of the mathematical sciences, but also readers from other disciplines or those with an interest in physics or philosophy will find this work both appealing and insightful.

      On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry
    • 2014

      Bernhard Riemanns Werk hat bis heute wesentlichen Einfluß auf die Entwicklung der Mathematik genommen. Seine Ideen sind überraschend modern und prägen die heutige mathematische Forschung. Die Gesammelten Abhandlungen (1892) samt Supplement von 1902 waren seit langer Zeit vergriffen. R. Narasimhan hat die mühevolle Edition dieser Neuausgabe übernommen. Es können nur einige Höhepunkte genannt werden: - H. Weils Kommentare über Riemanns Habilitationsschrift - C. L. Siegel über Riemanns Nachlass zur analytischen Zahlentheorie - W. Wirtingers berühmter Vortrag beim internationalen Mathematikerkongress Heidelberg 1904 über Riemanns Vorlesungen über die hypergeometrische Reihe. Neben diesen historischen Würdigungen von Riemanns Werk gibt es aktuelle Beiträge, insbesondere zur Mechanik und über „shock waves“ von S. Chandrasekhar, N. Lebovitz und P. Lax. Raghavan Narasimhan gibt in einer ausführlichen Einleitung eine Würdigung, insbesondere des funktionentheoretischen Werks von Bernhard Riemann. Ferner sind Fotos und zahlreiche Nachträge zum Lebenslauf aufgenommen worden. Eine Bibliographie mit mehr als 800 Literaturstellen erarbeitet von E. Neuenschwander und W. Purkert rundet diese Werkausgabe ab.

      Gesammelte mathematische Werke, wissenschaftlicher Nachlass und Nachträge