Exposition by Emil Artin.

Emil Artin was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He had the rare distinction of having solved two of the famous problems posed by David Hilbert in 1900. He showed that every positive definite rational function of several variables was a sum of squares. He also discovered and...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Rosen, Michael
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2006.
Series:	History of mathematics.