THE BRILL-NOETHER THEORY

BRILL, ALEXANDER VON (+) MAX NOETHER.

Ueber die algebraischen Functionen und ihre Anwendung in der Geometrie.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1874. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 7., 1874. 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. Title-page and index-page with nicks and repairs. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 269-316. [Entire volume: IV, 638 pp.].

First printing of this important paper in which the Brill-Noether theory was presented for the first time.
In the theory of algebraic curves, Brill-Noether theory, is the study of special divisors, certain divisors on a curve C that determine more compatible functions than would be predicted. In classical language, special divisors move on the curve in a "larger than expected" linear system of divisors.

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