nLab Heinrich Weber

Heinrich Martin Weber was a German mathematician.

• Wikipedia page.

Selected writings

The original article that gives a definition equivalent to the modern definition of a group

• Heinrich Weber, Beweis des Satzes, dass jede eigentlich primitive quadratische Form unendlich viele Primzahlen darzustellen fähig ist, Mathematische Annalen 20:3 (1882), 301–329 (doi:10.1007/bf01443599)

For the original article that gives a definition of an arbitrary field (as opposed to subfields of the complex numbers):

• Heinrich Weber (1893), “Die allgemeinen Grundlagen der Galois’schen Gleichungstheorie”, Mathematische Annalen (in German), 43 (4): 521–549, $[$doi:10.1007/BF01446451, ISSN:0025-5831, JFM:25.0137.01, S2CID:120528969$]$

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