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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003636349707536

Autore

Roquette, Peter

Titolo

The Riemann hypothesis in characteristic p in historical perspective [e-book] / Peter Roquette

ISBN

3319990675

9783319990675

3319990667

9783319990668

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 235 p. 15 illus.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics, 2193-1771 ; 2222

Classificazione

AMS 11M26

AMS 01A60

AMS 11R58

AMS 14H05

LC QA3.L28

Disciplina

510.9

Soggetti

Number theory

Riemann hypothesis

Characteristic functions

Algebraic fields

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Overture -- Setting the stage -- The Beginning: Artin’s Thesis -- Building the Foundations -- Enter Hasse. - Diophantine Congruences. - Elliptic Function Fields. - More on Elliptic Fields. - Towards Higher Genus. - A Virtual Proof. - Intermission. - A.Weil. - Appendix. - References. - Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book tells the story of the Riemann hypothesis for function fields (or curves) starting with Artin's 1921 thesis, covering Hasse's work in the 1930s on elliptic fields and more, and concluding with Weil's final proof in 1948. The main sources are letters which were exchanged among the protagonists during that time, found in various archives, mostly the University Library in Göttingen. The aim is to show how the ideas formed, and how the proper notions and proofs were found,



providing a particularly well-documented illustration of how mathematics develops in general. The book is written for mathematicians, but it does not require any special knowledge of particular mathematical fields