The Collected Papers of William Burnside, 2 Vols

William Burnside, Peter M. Neuman (ed), A. J. S. Mann (ed), Julia C. Tompson (ed)

ISBN 10: 019850585X / ISBN 13: 9780198505853

Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

About this Item

First edition. Two volume set. Both volumes are in similarly good condition. Spine are lightly bumped and shaken, but bindings are secure. Insides are clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Papers of William Burnside, 2 Vols
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019850585X
• ISBN 13: 9780198505853
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

William Burnside was one of the three most important algebraists who were involved in the transformation of group theory from its nineteenth-century origins to a deeper twentieth-century subject. Building on work of earlier mathematicians, they were able to develop sophisticated tools for solving difficult problems. His works are of enormous historical importance; they remain also a source of inspiration and information. The works of his contemporaries, such as Klein, Frobenius, Schur, have been published as also have the works of his immediate successors such as Phillip Hall.

All of Burnside's papers are reproduced here, organized chronologically and with a detailed bibliography. Walter Feit has contributed a foreword, and a collection of introductory essays are included to provide a commentary on Burnside's work and set it in perspective along with a modern biography that draws on archive material.

This is the first reference volume of Burnside's collected papers, enhanced by a series of critical essays on his work, and is important for group theorists and historians and philosophers of mathematics and fills the gap in this area of literature.

Review

We must congratulate the editors for accomplishing so well the task of masking the work of a distinguished mathematician available to a much wider audience. (BSHM)