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Harold M. Edwards (1936–2020)

Author of Riemann's Zeta Function

9 Works 396 Members 4 Reviews

About the Author

Harold M. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at New York University.
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Works by Harold M. Edwards

Riemann's Zeta Function (1974) 215 copies, 1 review
Galois Theory (1984) 37 copies
Linear Algebra (1995) 13 copies, 1 review
Essays in Constructive Mathematics (2004) 10 copies, 1 review
Divisor Theory (1990) 3 copies
伽罗瓦理论 (2010) 3 copies

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4 reviews
Essays, my foot; it's mostly impenetrable formalism. Edwards is one of the minority of mathematicians who consider that the subject started going wrong around 1880, when conservatives (vis-à-vis such innovations as completed infinities) like his hero Kronecker lost out to people like Dedekind, Cantor, Weierstrass, and (later) Hilbert. To the meager extent that I'm qualified to have an opinion about constructivism, I disagree with it.
I mostly just skimmed this book in looking up information on Gaussian Primes for a math paper. It looks mostly very introductory, but is very easy to read for a math book. Unfortunately, not helpful for my math paper.
Was a landmark publication of 1989 that directly influenced generations of great mathematicians, among them Hadamard, Landau, Hardy, Siegel, Jensen, Bohr, Selberg, Artin, and Hecke. This text, examines and amplifies the paper itself.

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