The Story of Algebraic Numbers in the First Half of the 20th Century

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The Story of Algebraic Numbers in the First Half of the 20th Century is written by Władysław Narkiewicz and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030037541 (ISBN 10) and 9783030037543 (ISBN 13).

The book is aimed at people working in number theory or at least interested in this part of mathematics. It presents the development of the theory of algebraic numbers up to the year 1950 and contains a rather complete bibliography of that period. The reader will get information about results obtained before 1950. It is hoped that this may be helpful in preventing rediscoveries of old results, and might also inspire the reader to look at the work done earlier, which may hide some ideas which could be applied in contemporary research.