Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Eighteen authors - mathematicians, historians, philosophers - have collaborated in this volume to assess the impact of the Disquisitiones, in the two centuries since its publication.

The present volume contains Friedrich Hirzebruch's works from 1987 until 2012. It is the continuation of the two volumes "Friedrich Hirzebruch, Gesammelte Abhandlungen", published by Springer-Verlag in 1987. The volume, edited by Joachim Schwermer, Silke Wimmer-Zagier and Don Zagier, includes all of Friedrich Hirzebruch's mathematical publications from this period as well as two lecture reports written by him. These are supplemented by a number of articles and addresses containing historical or biographical material, as well as obituaries or appreciations of people who were mathematically or personally close to him.

Arithmetic groups are generalisations, to the setting of algebraic groups over a global field, of the subgroups of finite index in the general linear group with entries in the ring of integers of an algebraic number field. They are rich, diverse structures and they arise in many areas of study. This text enables you to build a solid, rigorous foundation in the subject. It first develops essential geometric and number theoretical components to the investigations of arithmetic groups, and then examines a number of different themes, including reduction theory, (semi)-stable lattices, arithmetic groups in forms of the special linear group, unipotent groups and tori, and reduction theory for adelic coset spaces. Also included is a thorough treatment of the construction of geometric cycles in arithmetically defined locally symmetric spaces, and some associated cohomological questions. Written by a renowned expert, this book is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students.

Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Eighteen authors - mathematicians, historians, philosophers - have collaborated in this volume to assess the impact of the Disquisitiones, in the two centuries since its publication.

Cohomology of arithmetic groups serves as a tool in studying possible relations between the theory of automorphic forms and the arithmetic of algebraic varieties resp. the geometry of locally symmetric spaces. These proceedings will serve as a guide to this still rapidly developing area of mathematics. Besides two survey articles, the contributions are original research papers.

Ausgehend von einer grundlegenden Einfuhrung in Begriffe und Methoden der Algebra werden im Buch die wesentlichen Ergebnisse dargestellt und ein Einblick in viele Entwicklungen innerhalb der Algebra gegeben, die mit anderen Gebieten der Mathematik stark verflochten sind.

Beginnend mit Begriffsbildungen wie Gruppe und Ring fuhrt das Buch hin zu den Korpererweiterungen und der Galoistheorie. Danach werden zentrale Teile der Theorie der Moduln, Algebren und Ringe behandelt. Die Theorie der Divisionsalgebren und ihre Klassifikation mit Hilfe der Brauergruppe werden entwickelt. Es schliessen sich Einfuhrungen in die algebraischen Zahlentheorie und die Theorie der quadratischen Formen an.

In zahlreichen Supplementen findet man Ausblicke auf weiterfuhrende Themen. Betrachtet werden zum Beispiel allgemeine lineare Gruppen, Schiefpolynomringe, Darstellungen, Erweiterungen von Moduln, projektive Moduln und Frobenius-Algebren."