IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB000671393

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

Bölling, Reinhard (Author)

NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 13
Pages: 238--257

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

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.

...More

Citation URI

http://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000671393/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Book Reichardt, Hans; (1988)
Nachrufe auf Berliner Mathematiker des 19. Jahrhunderts: C.G.J. Jacobi, P.G.L. Dirichlet, E.E. Kummer, L. Kronecker, K. Weierstrass. Mit Fotos, Dokumenten und Archivalien (/isis/citation/CBB000033879/)

Chapter Jacqueline Boniface; (2016)
Kummer's Generalization of Arithmetical Properties as Applied to Certain Complex Numbers (/isis/citation/CBB798391827/)

Article Pieper, Herbert; (1988)
Urteile C.G.J. Jacobis über den Mathematiker E.E. Kummer (/isis/citation/CBB000054753/)

Article Nakane, Michiyo; Fraser, Craig G.; (2002)
The Early History of Hamilton-Jacobi Dynamics, 1834--1837 (/isis/citation/CBB000300291/)

Article Pieper, Herbert; (2005)
Alexander von Humboldt und die Berufung Jacob Jacobis an die Wiener Universität (/isis/citation/CBB000671388/)

Article Cogliati, Alberto; (2014)
On Jacobi’s Transformation Theory of Elliptic Functions (/isis/citation/CBB001202205/)

Article Del Centina, Andrea; Fiocca, Alessandra; (2012)
The Correspondence between Sophie Germain and Carl Friedrich Gauss (/isis/citation/CBB001200069/)

Article Roque, Tatiana; (2015)
L'originalité de Poincaré en mécanique céleste: pratique des solutions périodiques dans un réseau de textes (/isis/citation/CBB001552876/)

Article Lene Birkeland; Rolf Nossum; (2022)
A letter from Malevich to Semevsky about Kovalevskaya (/isis/citation/CBB879238313/)

Article Ausejo Martínez, Elena; Ausejo Lifante, Elena; (2017)
Correspondencia de Zoel García de Galdeano con matemáticos alemanes: Georg Cantor (/isis/citation/CBB631684117/)

Article Corry, Leo; (2010)
Hunting Prime Numbers---From Human to Electronic Computers (/isis/citation/CBB000933579/)

Article Luciano, Erika; (2007)
Il trattato Genocchi-Peano (1884) alla luce di documenti inediti (/isis/citation/CBB000933156/)

Chapter Thiele, Rüdiger; (2008)
The Weierstrass-Schwarz Letters. A Preliminary Report (/isis/citation/CBB000950186/)

Book Peano, Giuseppe; Couturat, Louis; Luciano, Erika; Roero, Clara Silvia; (2005)
Carteggio: 1896--1914 (/isis/citation/CBB000954373/)

Book Hahn, Roger; (2013)
Correspondance de Pierre Simon Laplace (1749--1827) (/isis/citation/CBB001450201/)

Book Tapp, Christian; (2005)
Kardinalität und Kardinäle: Wissenschaftshistorische Aufarbeitung der Korrespondenz zwischen Georg Cantor und katholischen Theologen seiner Zeit (/isis/citation/CBB001021540/)

Article Schlimm, Dirk; (2013)
The Correspondence between Moritz Pasch and Felix Klein (/isis/citation/CBB001211812/)

Article Pedro J. Freitas; (2019)
The Correspondence from Ernesto Cesàro to Francisco Gomes Teixeira (/isis/citation/CBB711366439/)

Book Lukas M. Verburgt; (2022)
A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 (/isis/citation/CBB973721908/)

Article Del Centina, Andrea; (2008)
Unpublished Manuscripts of Sophie Germain and a Revaluation of Her Work on Fermat's Last Theorem (/isis/citation/CBB000850598/)