Theory of Algebraic Invariants

by David Hilbert

Book Overview

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 this course by Hilbert's student Sophus Marxen. At that time his research in the subject had been completed, and his famous finiteness theorem had been proved and published in two papers that changed the course of invariant theory dramatically and that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521449030
• ISBN13: 9780521449038
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"