Lanterna Rally

Author: Oliver Edmunds Glenn

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Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781330873687

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants The object of this boob is, first, to present in a volume of medium size the fundamental principles and processes and a few of the multitudinous applications of invariant theory, with emphasis upon both the nonsymbolical and the symbolical method. Secondly, opportunity has been taken to emphasize a logical development of this theory as a whole, and to amalgamate methods of English mathematicians of the latter part of the nineteenth century - Boole, Cayley, Sylvester, and their contemporaries - and methods of the continental school, associated with the names of Aronhold, Clebech, Gordan, and Hermite. The original memoirs on the subject, comprising an exceedingly large and classical division of pure mathematics, have been consulted extensively. I have deemed it expedient, however, to give only a few references in the text. The student in the subject is fortunate in having at his command two large and meritorious bibliographical reports which give historical references with much greater completeness than would be possible in footnotes in a book. These are the article "Invariantentheorie" in the "Enzyklopadie der mathematischen Wissenschaften" (I B 2), and W. Fr. Meyer's "Bericht uber den gegenwartigen Stand der Invariantentheorie" in the "Jahresbericht der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung" for 1890-1891. The first draft of the manuscript of the book was in the form of notes for a course of lectures on the theory of invariants, which I have given for several years in the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."