Article ID: CBB000671393

Ein aufgefundener früher Brief Kummers am Beginn seiner Korrespondenz mit Jacobi (2005)

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It is known that C. G. J. Jacobi wrote his first two letters to E. E. Kummer in the year 1834. Thanks to a find in the archive of the Mittag-Leffler Institute there is now the missing link, Kummer's reply letter to Jacobi's first letter. This letter seems to be the earliest one from Kummer still in existence (at least to a mathematician). Kummer tells in his letter about his situation as a teacher in Liegnitz, gives further a version of his later paper on the summation of slowly convergent series and discusses Euler's summation formula in connection with the practice of its use in numerical calculations. The article contains the complete texts of the three letters (up to those parts in Kummer's letter identically contained in his published article) together with a commentary on their contents.

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Authors & Contributors
Pieper, Herbert
Pulte, Helmut
Fraser, Craig G.
Bölling, Reinhard
Boniface, Jacqueline
Callison, Mary Joan
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Historia Mathematica
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Cahiers du Séminar d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Teubner
Concepts
Mathematics
Number theory; number concept
Mechanics
Complex numbers
Algebra
Geometry
People
Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob
Kummer, Ernst Eduard
Kronecker, Leopold
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Bell, Eric Temple
Dedekind, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
Institutions
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Universität Wien
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