Abstract
THE saying that Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte certainly does not hold good of mathematics; and, oddly enough, it conspicuously fails in cases where it might be expected to justify itself. It is but a step from elliptic to hyperelliptic, from single to double Theta-functions; yet whereas Jacobi reduced all the essential theory of elliptic functions to a most elegant, and for some purposes a final, shape, it is only now becoming possible to construct a corresponding theory for the hyperelliptic functions.
An Introduction to the Theory of Multiply-Periodic Functions.
By Dr. H. F. Baker. Pp. xvi + 336. (Cambridge: University Press, 1907.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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M., G. Polyperiodic Functions . Nature 77, v–vi (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/07700vb0
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