Exposition by Emil Artin: A Selection. 9781470438975, 1470438976

Emil Artin was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He had the rare distinction of having solved tw

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Exposition by Emil Artin: A Selection.
 9781470438975, 1470438976

Table of contents :
Cover
Title page
Contents
Photos
Credits and acknowledgments
Introduction
Books by Emil Artin
The Gamma Function
Galois Theory
Theory of Algebraic Numbers
Papers by Emil Artin
Axiomatic characterization of fields by the product formula for valuations
A note on axiomatic characterization of fields
A characterization of the field of real algebraic numbers
The algebraic construction of real fields
A characterization of real closed fields
The theory of braids
Theory of braids
On the theory of complex functions
A proof of the Krein-Milman theorem.

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