BRILL, ALEXANDER WILHELM VON.

Ueber die Discriminante (+) Ueber rationale Curven vierter Ordnung. (Mit Zwei Lithographirten).

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1877. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 12., 1877. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 87-89; Pp. 90-122. [Entire volume: IV, 576 pp.].

First printing of Brill's paper which was of seminal importance in the development of the discriminant of an algebraic number field.
The definition of the discriminant of a general algebraic number field, K, was given by Dedekind in 1871. Hermite's theorem predates the general definition of the discriminant with Charles Hermite publishing a proof of it in 1857. In 1877, Alexander von Brill determined the sign of the discriminant.

The present volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians.

Order-nr.: 47157