KUMMER, F. F.

Über eine besondere Art, aus complexen Einheiten gebildeter Ausdrücke.

Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1855. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with paper label to spine. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik", 50. band, Heft 1-4, 1855. Extremities with wear. Number written to top right corner of title page. Small library stamp to lower part of p. 1. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 212-238. [Entire volume: IV, 392 pp. + 4 plates.

First printing of Kummer's paper which laid the foundation for Hilbert's Theorem 90 (or Satz 90). In abstract algebra Hilbert's Theorem 90 refers to an important result on cyclic extensions of fields that eventually leads to Kummer theory.

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