Basic Mathematics from a Historical Viewpoint.
Jasbir S. Chahal. A historical perspective of algebra and geometry from
ancient times up to the time of Euler. A subsequent volume will treat more
recent developments. The book is readily accessible to high school students
and general readers. The material has been used in a popular and successful
undergraduate course on the history of mathematics at Brigham Young University.
Approximate publication date: December 2006.
Euler: A Tercentenary Celebration. Edited by Roger Baker.
This volume celebrates the 300th anniversary of Euler's birth in 1707 with
essays about many aspects of his work. Contributions from R. Angel, J. Dhombres,
G. Ferraro, R. A. Gonzalez Redondo, R. Ineichen, M. Panza, R. Radelet-de
Grave, D. Ritelli, G. M. Scarpello, A. Scimone, O. Sheynin, D. Suisky, M.
Takase, R. Thiele and V. Yakovlev. Approximate publication date: May 2007.
Analytic functions of several complex variables. Carl L.
Siegel. Notes by Paul T. Bateman of a lecture course at the Institute for
Advanced Study. This book was originally published in 1950 by the Institute
for Advanced Study and has been out of print for many years. The lectures
are mainly devoted to an exposition of the theory of automorphic functions
of several complex variables. The theory is due in part to Siegel himself.
General notions on analytic functions of several complex variables that
will be needed later on are covered in Chapters 1 to 3. Chapters 4 to 10
concern abelian functions and theta functions. Chapter 10 covers the theory
of automorphic functions attached to a bounded domain, and a discontinuous
group W of automorphisms of D, such that the
quotient space D/W is compact. In Chapters 11
and 12 these ideas are partially extended to the case where D/W
is not compact. Approximate publication date: April 2007.
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