Niels Henrik Abel in Memoriam. (Herausgegeben - Redigée von G. Mittag-Leffler). 3 Bde.

Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1902-1904. 4to. Bound in 3 contemp. hcloth. A small nick to top of spine on one volume. Stamps on titlepages (Carl Zeiss Jena). (6),400(8),389(8),394 pp. a. 1 letter in facsimile. (= Acta Mathematica Bd. 26, 27 and 28). Internally fine and clean.

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First printing of this series of important papers by leading mathematicians from all over the world, commemorating Abel in the 100-year of his birth, by presenting works of their own which are inspired by Abel or as continuations of Abel's works.The contributors are: Poincare (Sur les Fonctions abélienne), Hilbert (Über die Theorie der relativ-Abel'schen Zahlkörper), Hurwitz, Noether, Darboux, Picard, Fuchs, Minkowski (Úber periodische Approximationen algebraischer Zahlen), Mittag-Leffler, Appel, Painlevé (Sur la Fonctions qui admettent un théoréme d'additation), Liouville (Sur une équation différentielle du premier ordre), Volterra, Goursat, Hadamard (Deux theoremes d'Abel sur la convergance des séries), Borel, Pringsheim, Boutroux, Markoff and many others. In all 54 papers by 54 authors.