Collected papers. III: 1978--1988 (Q4795331)

The third volume in a row of four forming Goro Shimura's Collected Papers contains 23 articles covering the period 1978-1988. The comments made in the appendices feature a largely elaborated version of a graduate course held in Princeton, the title being `The special values of the zeta functions associated with Hilbert modular forms'. They also contain an expanded version of Shimura's invited lecture `Some problems of algebraicity' delivered at the ICM Congress in Helsinki (1978). We quote the introduction to that article in order to provide a glance of the flavor: `As every mathematician knows, the parallelism beween algebraic number theory and transcendental number theory exists only in their appellations and not in their contents. Indeed, the aim of the latter theory is to prove the transcendence of a given number, while algebraic numbers are there from the beginning in the former. Therefore, if one proves the algebraicity of an analytically defined number, it cannot be viewed as a theorem of either theory. It belongs to a new area of investigation for which this lecture is intended and to which I can give no good designation. Although, the problem of algebraicity has not attracted many attention until recently, there are at least two classical and well-known examples. The samples are the values of the Riemann zeta-function and complex multiplication of elliptic modular functions. See Zbl 1008.01022, Zbl 1037.01011 and Zbl 1037.01013 for Vols. I, II, and IV.