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IT is almost a misfortune that Gauss and Smith were such consummate masters of mathematical style. Nearly everyone who writes on an arithmetical topic is tempted to imitate them, at least in their brevity and severe deductive method, and the result is that many are frightened away from a delightful study because of its dry. and, so to speak, inaccessible aspect.
The Elements of the Theory of Algebraic Numbers.
By Prof. L. W. Reid. With an introduction by Prof. D. Hilbert. Pp. xix + 454. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 15s. net.
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M., G. The Elements of the Theory of Algebraic Numbers . Nature 89, 164 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089164a0
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