Numbers / by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Max Koecher, Klaus Mainzer, Jürgen Neukirch, Alexander Prestel, Reinhold Remmert.

This is a book about numbers - all kinds of numbers, from integers to p-adics, from rationals to octonions, from reals to infinitesimals. Who first used the standard notation for Â? Why was Hamilton obsessed with quaternions? What was the prospect for "quaternionic analysis" in the 19th ce...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter
Other Authors:	Hermes, Hans, Hirzebruch, Friedrich, Koecher, Max, Mainzer, Klaus, Neukirch, Jürgen, Prestel, Alexander, Remmert, Reinhold
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1991.
Series:	Graduate texts in mathematics. Readings in mathematics ; 123.
Subjects:	Mathematics. Number theory.