Subject: Re: [HM] Query on Weil reference
From: Joao Filipe Queiro (jfqueiro@mat.uc.pt)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 12:27:20 EST
At 14:31 06-01-2000 -0500, Colin McLarty wrote:
>
> I believe that Andre Weil somewhere praises Leo Koenigsberger's
> biography of C.G. Jacobi, and says it is just the way a mathematical
> biography should be written. ... Can anyone confirm that Weil said
> this?
This appears in a footnote to "History of Mathematics: Why and how"
(Proceedings of the 1978 ICM, Helsinki):
"Jacobi, as a student, had hesitated between classical philology and
mathematics; he always retained a deep interest in Greek mathematics
and mathematical history; extracts from his writings on this subject
have been published by Koenigsberger in his biography of Jacobi
(incidentally, a good model for a mathematically oriented biography
of a great mathematician); see L. Koenigsberger, 'Carl Gustav Jacob
Jacobi', Teubner 1904, pp. 385-395 and 413-414."
Joao Filipe Queiro
University of Coimbra
Portugal
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