Elliptic functions according to Eisenstein and Kronecker: an update

DOI10.4171/NEWS/101/4MaRDI QIDQ516153zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pierre Charollois, Robert Sczech

Publication date 22 March 2017

Published in European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/NEWS/101/4

zbMATH Keywords

Eisenstein summationelliptic functionsLeopold Kronecker

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of number theory (11-03) Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05)

Review text

Summary: This article introduces a set of recently discovered lecture notes from the last course of Leopold Kronecker, delivered a few weeks before his death in December 1891. The notes, written by F. von Dalwigk, elaborate on the late recognition by Kronecker of the importance of the ``Eisenstein summation process, invented by the ``companion of his youth in order to deal with conditionally convergent series that are known today as Eisenstein series. We take this opportunity to give a brief update of the well known book by André Weil (1976) that brought these results of Eisenstein and Kronecker back to light. We believe that Eisenstein's approach to the theory of elliptic functions was in fact a very important part of Kronecker's planned proof of his visionary ``Jugendtraum.

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