Development of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by M. Ackerman. Appendices, 'Kleinian Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint,' by R. Hermann.

First Edition in English of Volume I of Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert (1926-27) (of two; the German edition of Vol. II was never completed and it has not been translated into English). ix, 630 pp; 48 + 7 figs. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued). Volume 9 of Lie Groups Series, No 9. Volume 9 of Lie groups : history, frontiers and applications. Volume 9 of Development of mathematics in the 19th century. 'An unsurpassed account . . . enlivened by personal comments, and always lucid in its account of the mathematics. It considers Gauss's work in pure and applied mathematics, the French school around the École Polytechnique, Crelle's Journal and German mathematics, algebraic geometry, the British school of mathematical physics, the function theory of Riemann and Weierstrass, algebraic curves, group theory and function theory (particularly Poincaré's automorphic functions) and, in an incomplete second part, linear invariant theory, special relativity and Riemannian manifolds' (Joseph Dauben, The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography, no. 989; see also 1316 and 1570). …