References for Bernhard Riemann
- H Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
- Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]
Books:
- R Dedekind, Biography of Riemann, in H Weber and R Dedekind (eds.), The Collected Works of Riemann (New York, 1953).
- F Klein, Development of mathematics in the 19th century (Brookline, Mass., 1979).
- D Laugwitz, Bernhard Riemann 1826-1866 (Basel, 1995).
- M Monastyrsky, Rieman, Topology and Physics (Boston-Basel, 1987).
- G Schulz, Riemann, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983).
Articles:
- W L Gonczarow, On the scientific papers of Riemann (Polish), Wiadom Mat. (2) 2 (1959), 155-196.
- H Grauert, Bernhard Riemann and his ideas in philosophy of nature, in Analysis, geometry and groups: a Riemann legacy volume (Palm Harbor, FL, 1993), 124-132.
- Y K Hon, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, Bull. Malaysian Math. Soc. 6 (2) (1975), 1-6.
- F Klein, Riemann und seine Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der modernen Mathematik, Ges. Math. Abh. 3 (1923), 482-497.
- S Kulczycki, On Riemann's habilitational address (Polish), Wiadom. Mat. (2) 1 (1955/1956), 180-193.
- E Portnoy, Riemann's contribution to differential geometry, Historia Math. 9 (1) (1982), 1-18.
- E Scholz, Riemann's vision of a new approach to geometry, in 1830-1930: a century of geometry (Berlin, 1992), 22-34.
- F G Tricomi, Bernhard Riemann e l'Italia, Univ. e Politec. Torino Rend. Sem. Mat. 25 (1965/1966), 57-72.
- A Weil, Riemann, Betti and the birth of topology, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 20 (2) (1979), 91-96.
- A P Yushkevich and S S Demidov, Bernhard Riemann : on the 150th anniversary of his birth (Russian), Mat. v Skole (4) (1977), 76-80.
- J D Zund, Some comments on Riemann's contributions to differential geometry, Historia Math. 10 (1) (1983), 84-89.
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