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This book, which is prefaced by S. Iyanaga, contains all mathematical papers by the well known algebraic number theorist T. Takagi which were published in languages other than Japanese. In particular, it contains his basic papers on the class field theory, including those singled out by \textit{H. Hasse} in his article ``History of class field theory'' [Algebraic Number Theory, J. W. S. Cassels (ed.) and A. Fröhlich (ed.), London, 266--279 (1967; Zbl 0153.07403)]. One of these papers contains Takagi's solution of Kronecker's completeness problem for the relatively abelian extensions of the Gaussian number field, while others are concerned with the foundations of class field theory, as it was formulated by Takagi [for an outline, see the authoritative survey by Hasse (loc. cit.)]. The various articles have been freshly type-set for the present volume, but it is stated in the preface that there have been no further changes from the original versions apart from the correction of obvious misprints. A student of source material in algebraic number theory should find the reprinting of these relatively inaccessible works to be particularly valuable. [An enlarged second edition has been published by Springer (1990; Zbl 0707.01017), reprinted in (2014; Zbl 1317.01043)].