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
Luciano, Erika
Freitas, Pedro J.
Birkeland, Lene
Ausejo Lifante, Elena
Verburgt, Lukas M.
Concepts
Mathematics
Correspondence and corresponding
Biographies
Critical editions
Mathematics education
Mathematicians
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
France
Florence (Italy)
Russia
Portugal
Italy
Germany
Institutions
Universität Wien
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
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