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From the reviews
"All of Weil s works except for books and lecture notes are compiled here, in strict chronological order for easy reference.
But the value goes beyond the convenience of easy reference and accessibility. In the first place, these volumes contain several essays, letters, and addresses which were either published in obscure places ( ) or not published at all.
Even more valuable are the lengthy commentaries on many of the articles, written by Weil himself. These remarks serve as a guide, helping the reader place the papers in their proper context. Moreover, we have the rare opportunity of seeing a great mathematician in his later life reflecting on the development of his ideas and those of his contemporaries at various stages of his career.
The sheer number of mathematical papers of fundamental significance would earn Weil s Collected Papers a place in the library of a mathematician with an interest in number theory, algebraic geometry, representations theory, or related areas. The additional import of the mathematical history and culture in these volumes makes them even more essential." Neal Koblitz in Mathematical Reviews
"André Weil s mathematical work has deeply influenced the mathematics of the twentieth century and the monumental (...) "Collected papers" emphasize this influence." O. Fomenko in Zentralblatt der Mathematik
List of contents
Sur certains groupes d'operateurs unitaires.- Sur la formule de Siegel dans la theorie des groupes Classiques.- Fonction zeta et distributions.- Uber die Bestimmung Dirichietscher Reihen durch Funktionalgleichungen.- Review: "The Collected Papers of Emil Artin".- Basic Number Theory (Foreword).- Zeta-functions and Mellin transforms.- Sur une formule cIassique.- On the analogue of the modular group in characteristic p.- Automorphic forms and Dirichlet series (A vertissement).- Notice biographique de J. Delsarte.
About the author
André Weil was born on May 6, 1906 in Paris. After studying mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure and receiving a doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1928, he held professorial positions in India, France, the United States and Brazil before being appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 1958, where he remained until he died on August 6, 1998. André Weil's work laid the foundation for abstract algebraic geometry and the modern theory of abelian varieties. A great deal of his work was directed towards establishing the links between number theory and algebraic geometry and devising modern methods in analytic number theory. Weil was one of the founders, around 1934, of the group that published, under the collective name of N. Bourbaki, the highly influential multi-volume treatise Eléments de mathématique.
