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Noether: historical readings

Four historical readings by Emmy Noether accompany the modern lessons. The German files are facsimile PDFs, not editable transcriptions. The English translated readers and complete English LaTeX edition are separately identified. These readings are linked, not embedded in the course download; repository access is required for the linked individual PDFs.

Rationale Funktionenkörper

Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 22 (1913), 316–319

Whole note.

Körper und Systeme rationaler Funktionen

Mathematische Annalen 76 (1915), 161–196

Read §§3–6, §8 and §§10–12 for the assigned comparison; the complete paper is supplied.

Gleichungen mit vorgeschriebener Gruppe

Mathematische Annalen 78 (1918), 221–229

Read the introduction and §1 for the two approaches and the sufficient parameter conditions; the complete paper is supplied.

Ein algebraisches Kriterium für absolute Irreduzibilität

Mathematische Annalen 85 (1922), 26–33

Whole paper, including the degree condition and Ostrowski consequence.

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