I spent many years as a full-time student of mathematics. One of my favourite theorems from my days as an undergraduate was the following from the field of abstract algebra: The Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory If is a finite separable normal field extension of degree with Galois group . Then there is a bijection [...]
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English Translation of the First Part of Niels Henrik Abel’s ‘Recherches sur les fonctions elliptiques’ with Short Historical Introduction
During my first year as a graduate student in the mathematics department at Simon Fraser University (circa 2005-2006), I undertook a reading course, one aim of which was to translate the first part of N. H. Abel’s groundbreaking work on elliptic integrals1 from the French into English. This translation was subsequently published with a short [...]
