Ueber die invarianten Eigenschaften spezieller binärer Formen, insbesondere der Kugelfunktionen

by David Hilbert

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First edition

Königsberg: Leupold, 1885. First edition, very rare, of Hilbert’s inaugural dissertation at the University of Königsberg, ‘On the invariant properties of special binary forms, in particular the spherical functions,’ in which he began his study of invariant theory. This subject was at the forefront of mathematics in the second half of the 19th century, and Hilbert’s work in this area made his

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