In the summer of 1897, David Hilbert (1862-1943) gave an introductory course in Invariant Theory at the University of Gottingen. This book is an English translation of the handwritten notes taken from ...

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黎曼猜想是数论中最重要的未解之谜——事实上它对整个数学界而言都至关重要。这个难题已经困扰了专家们超过160年。它不仅出现在了数学家大卫·希尔伯特（David ...

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For the next seven years, Noether taught in Erlangen, without pay or title, before being invited to teach at the University of Göttingen by David Hilbert, one of the most famous mathematicians of his ...