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Lectures on Number Theory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Lectures on Number Theory (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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During the academic year 1916-1917 I had the good fortune to be a
student of the great mathematician and distinguished teacher Adolf
Hurwitz, and to attend his lectures on the Theory of Functions at
the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich. After his death in 1919 there
fell into my hands a set of notes on the Theory of numbers, which
he had delivered at the Polytechnic Institute. This set of notes I
revised and gave to Mrs. Ferentinou-Nicolacopoulou with a request
that she read it and make relevant observations. This she did
willingly and effectively. I now take advantage of these few lines
to express to her my warmest thanks. Athens, November 1984 N.
Kritikos About the Authors ADOLF HURWITZ was born in 1859 at
Hildesheim, Germany, where he attended the Gymnasium. He studied
Mathematics at the Munich Technical University and at the
University of Berlin, where he took courses from Kummer,
Weierstrass and Kronecker. Taking his Ph. D. under Felix Klein in
Leipzig in 1880 with a thes i s on modul ar funct ions, he became
Pri vatdozent at Gcitt i ngen in 1882 and became an extraordinary
Professor at the University of Konigsberg, where he became
acquainted with D. Hilbert and H. Minkowski, who remained lifelong
friends. He was at Konigsberg until 1892 when he accepted
Frobenius' chair at the Polytechnic Institute in Z rich (E. T. H. )
where he remained the rest of his 1 i fe.
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