Kronecker's Jugendtraum and Modular Functions (Studies in the Development of Modern Mathematics)

Review 'An invaluable guide and source of perspective...[It] will have instant appeal to specialists in the history of 19th century algebra, analysis, and number theory [and to those] doing current research in algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.–R. Cooke of University of Vermont Product Description During the second half of the 19th century Leopold Kronecker cherished a dream, his Jugendtraum, that he should see the formulation of a complete theory of complex multiplication. In this important book Serge Vladut has studied this dream, tracing the development of elliptic function theory from its genesis to themost recent achievements.